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A    UNIFORM   EDITION   OF   THE    FOLLOWING 
WORKS,  BY  NEHEMIAH  ADAMS,  D.D. : 

I.  Agnes  and  the  Little  Key ;  or,  Bereaved 

Parents  Instructed  and  Comforted, 

An  enlarged  and  corrected  edition,  adapted  to 
all  denominations. 

II.  Bertha  and  her  Baptism, 

III.  Catharine, 

IV.  The  Friends  of  Christ  in  the  New  Tes- 

tament, 

V.   Christ  a  Friend, 
VI.   The  Communion  Sabbath, 


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BY 


NEHEMIAH    ADAMS,    D.  D. 


BOSTON : 
TICKNOR    AND    FIELDS 
1863. 

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the  briefest  form,  such  of  his  own 
reflections  as  might  serve  him  for 
hints  in  preaching.  Having  answered  this 
purpose,  the  thought  occurred  of  making  se- 
lections from  them  and  turning  them  into 
their  present  shape  and  use. 


Boston,  Dec   17,  1862. 


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here. 


IGHT  is  sown  for  the  righteous."  It 
is  the  destiny  of  the  good  to  be  happy 
forever,  with  no  mixed  conditions,  as 
Imagine  fields  over  which  you  are  to 
sown  with  hght,  which  springs  up  in 
countless  forms  of  beauty,  —  an  interminable 
succession  of  bright  visions.  Such  is  the  good 
man's  future.  —  "  And  gladness  for  the  up- 
right in  heart." 


SUCCESS  in  worldly  affairs  is  not  inconsist- 
ent with  eminent  goodness  and  the  appro- 
bation of  God.  "  And  David  went  on  and  grew 
great,  and  the  Lord  God  of  hosts  was  with  him." 


8  BROADCAST. 

'^^  M  ^HEY  came  to  the  sepulchre  bringing 
JL  the  spices,"  to  prepare  the  body  of 
Jesus  for  a  longer  sleep.  Simple,  affectionate, 
and  yet  unbelieving  women !  He  was  risen. 
Some  of  our  actions  are  of  this  mixed  char- 
acter. But  those  imperfect  yet  loving  friends 
were  kindly  treated.  The  tomb  had  angels  in 
it.  These  women  were  made  the  first  heralds 
to  the  world  of  Jesus  and  the  resurrection. 
Our  labors  may  be  erroneous,  superserviceable, 
and  mixed  with  unbehef ;  yet  nothing  is  lost 
when  done  for  Christ. 


**  X  IE  TILL  be  your  rereward."  Be  not 
T  T  afraid  of  drawing  back,  of  unex- 
pected assaults,  consequences  of  acts  repented 
of,  forsaken,  and  forgiven.  The  "rereward" 
is  of  special  use  by  night.  It  is  night  with 
us  continually,  as  to  unseen  dangers.  If  you 
press  forward  after  God,  he  will  not  only  "  go 
before  you,"  but  be  "your  rereward." 


BROADCAST.  9 

«y^BTAINED  promises."  This  cannot 
V^^  mean,  obtained  their  fulfilment  ;  — 
but  they  who  are  here  spoken  of,  by  their 
faith  in  God  led  Him  to  make  promises  to 
them.  He  was  pleased  with  their  spirit  and 
behavior,  and  in  consequence  promised  them 
surprising  blessings.  Witness  Abraham,  Jacob, 
David,  Solomon,  Hannah,  and  others. 


THE  sight  of  a  great  procession,  or 
crowd,  stirs  up  feelings  of  love,  at  times, 
in  every  good  mind.  Each  of  this  multitude 
is  as  precious  to  God  as  I.  Each  has  a  his- 
tory, a  present  experience,  a  destiny ;  God 
knows  each,  —  his  name,  abode,  calling,  his 
character.  Each  had  a  parentage,  an  infancy, 
a  home ;  there  are  those  to  whom  he  is  dear. 
It  is  good  to  look  on  great  companies  of  our 
fellow-men.  It  makes  us  humble,  benevo- 
lent ;  it  makes  us  feel  our  need  of  the  partic- 
ular love  and  care  of  God. 

I*  


10  BROADCAST. 

IF  heaven  were  apparent,  desires  for  it 
might  be  less  pure.  Its  external  glory 
and  beauty,  its  rest,  its  society,  its  pleasures, 
might  abate  our  pursuit  of  holiness,  which  we 
now  feel  is  the  chief  characteristic  of  the 
place.  It  would  also,  perhaps,  too  much  abate 
the  fear  of  death,  which  now  has  a  controlHng 
influence  upon  us.  "We  walk  by  faith,  not 
by  sight." 


^'  ^TMIOU  sowest  not  that  body  that  shall 
JL  be."  Strange  that  one  who  has  seen 
an  ear  of  corn  with  its  wrappings,  its  silk,  its 
rows  of  kernels  on  the  large,  hard  cob,  all 
from  one  grain,  which  "  cannot  bear  fruit 
except  it  die,"  can  be  an  unbehever  in  the 
resurrection.  Moreover,  such  things  in  na- 
ture should  make  us  exult  in  the  thought  of 
future  bodies  immeasurably  in  advance  of  the 
present.  "  It  doth  not  yet  appear  what  we 
shall  be."      But  "we  shall  be  Uke  Him." 


BROADCAST.  11 

IT  is  greatly  helpful,  and  encouraging  too, 
to  read  God's  remonstrances  and  upbraid- 
ings  at  Israel's  departures  from  Him,  his  ear- 
nest wishes  that  they  had  continued  faithftil, 
and  his  promises  if  they  will  return,  —  all  de- 
signed to  show  us  what  it  is  which  God  de- 
sires in  us,  these  things  being  recorded  not  as 
mere  chronicles,  but  to  instruct  the  world  by 
illustration  rather  than  by  a  code  of  dry,  ab- 
stract rules. 


"rr^HOU  wilt  make  all  his  bed  in  his 
JL  sickness."  Some  expressions  of  con- 
descension on  the  part  of  God,  like  some 
acts  of  the  same  kind  on  the  part  of  the 
Saviour,  are  beyond  our  conception.  But  let 
us  not  be  faithless,  but  believing.  We  must 
not  take  our  own  measures  with  us  in  judg- 
ing of  God.  His  ways  are  not  as  our  ways 
in  showing  kindness,  nor  his  thoughts  as  our 
thoughts.  If  they  had  been  in  times  past, 
how   poorly  had  we  fared. 


12  BROADCAST, 

THERE  was  a  seeming  inconsistency  be- 
tween Noah's  preaching  and  the  size 
of  his  ark.  Suppose  that  multitudes  had 
been  converted?  Hence,  did  not  God  intend 
that  they  should  not  repent?  Answer:  So 
men  cavil  about  God's  purposes  and  his  invi- 
tations. If  multitudes  had  believed  Noah, 
they  too  could  have  built  arks.  Perhaps 
they  would  have  prevented  the  flood. 


«  Q  L  E  E  P  in  Jesus."  Beautiful  words. 
\<D  They  are  not  said  to  sleep  in  their 
winding-sheet,  in  their  shroud,  in  their  coffin, 
in  their  grave,  but,  first  of  all,  they  "  sleep 
in  Jesus,"  and  in  the  same  sense  they  con- 
tinue "  asleep "  in  him,  while  they  live  with 
him  in  heaven ;  —  for  one  characteristic  of 
the  Bible  is  that  it  describes  things  as  they 
appear.  The  identification  of  believers  with 
Christ  is  brought  to  view  in  this  Christian 
synonyme  for  death,  —  "sleep  in  Jesus." 


BROADCAST.  13 

MOST  wonderful  are  the  interpositions 
of  God  for  his  wicked  people  when  he 
sees  the  heathen  enemies  proposing  ta  destroy 
them.  He  will  punish  his  children,  but  if  a 
stranger  interposes,  he  will  take  part  with  the 
children.  Moreover,  he  will  employ  strangers 
to  punish  them,  and  then  punish  the  perse- 
cutors. This  must  have  vexed  the  heathen 
nations,  and  it  must  have  softened  the  hearts 
of  rebellious  Israel.  All  this  is  for  our  learn- 
ing. God  and  his  people  and  their  enemies 
are  the  same  as  of  old. 


"fTAHEY  saw  the  man  clothed  and  in  his 
JL  right  mind,  and  they  were  afraid." 
The  change  impressed  them  more  than  the 
original  possession.  We  see  some  who  are 
exceedingly  wrought  upon  by  beholding  a 
case  of  conversion  in  a  relative  or  friend. 
Nothing  troubles  a  guilty,  unbelieving  heart 
more  than  this. 


U  BROADCAST. 

RIDING  at  anchor,  in  some  uncertainty 
as  to  the  soundings  and  the  reefs,  I 
thought  of  the  Bible  as  anchorage  amidst 
doubts,  and  scepticism,  and  fears.  Blessed 
book,  which  recalls  us  from  wondering,  vague 
feelings  about  God  and  futurity.  It  is,  more- 
over, like  an  island  to  escaped  mariners,  — 
sohd  rock,  and  stable  earth,  while  all  around 
is  sea  and  mist. 


WE  would  be  very  careful  how  we  im- 
portuned certain  men  if  we  needed 
a  favor  of  them.  We  would  state  the  case 
clearly  and  fully,  and  leave  it  to  their  con- 
sideration, trusting  to  their  judgment  and 
fidelity,  feeling  sure  of  an  answer  in  the 
proper  time.  Is  there  any  danger,  by  im- 
portunity in  prayer,  of  impropriety  ?  Let  us 
be  clear  and  full  in  our  supplication,  also  re- 
membering what  he  "  must  believe "  "  that 
cometh  to  God." 


BROADCAST.  15 

JOHN  discovered  the  Saviour  before  tlie 
rest,  on  the  sea-shore.  His  quick,  dis- 
cerning love  helped  him  to  say  to  Simon 
Peter,  "  It  is  the  Lord."  Happy  he  who  in 
darkness  and  storms  can  exclaim  thus  to  his 
companions. 


".13UT  I  have  prayed  for  thee."  Mght 
-U  we  but  hear  this  whispered  in  the 
anticipation  of  trial  and  temptation  I  In  fore- 
sight of  specially  needed  grace,  perhaps  th€ 
Advocate  with  the  Father  has  made  particular 
mention  of  us  before  God. 


"  TT THEREFORE,  let  them  that  suffer 
▼  ▼  according  to  the  will  of  God,"  — 
showing  that  sufferings  are  as  really  his  will 
as  obedience.  To  suffer  well  is  as  acceptable 
as  to  do  well. 


16  BROADCAST. 

*  TT  was  that  Mary  that  anointed  the  Lord 
X  with  ointment  and  wiped  his  feet  with 
her  hair,  whose  brother  Lazarus  was  sick." 
Yes,  and  he  died.  Dear  Evangelist,  you  seem 
to  insinuate  the  tender  thought  that  one  so 
kind  and  loving  to  Jesus  might  perhaps  be 
spared  such  trials.  O  how  many  such  Marys 
there  are,  and  with  the  self-same  griefs.  But 
when  Christ  has  made  one  capable  of  loving 
him  greatly.  He  is  fond  of  exercising  that  love. 
We  delight  in  using  anything  which  performs 
its  office  well.  So  when  God  has  an  excellent 
case  of  faith,  or  of  love,  he  uses  it,  puts  it  at 
work ;  and  so  we  see  why  some  of  the  very 
best  of  people  have  great  and  strange  afflic- 
tions. 


GOD  should  be  our  aim  and  end  in 
preaching,  as  well  as  to  save  souls.  We 
should  seek  to  save  souls  not  merely  for  their 
Bakes,  but  "that  God  in  all  things  may  be 
glorified." 


BROADCAST.  17 

«  \  CCEPTED  in  the  beloved."  One  who 
J^\.  brings  an  introduction  to  us  from  a 
very  dear  friend,  as  his  friend  greatly  beloved, 
is  sure  of  a  cordial  welcome.  We  for  the 
time  transfer  our  love  for  our  friend  to  him, 
and  when  we  come  to  love  him  for  his  own 
sake  also,  our  love  has  double  strength.  At 
first  he  was  accepted  of  us  in  our  beloved. 
The  Saviour's  acknowledgment  of  us  before 
God  is  an  immediate  and  sure  guaranty  of 
love  on  the  part  of  God. 


GOD  can  spare  any  man  or  angel  who 
chooses  to  sin.  We  are  not  essential 
to  his  glory  or  happiness.  Past  privileges, 
usefulness,  attainments,  position,  are  no  defence, 
if  we  forsake  God.  "  The  angels  that  kept 
not  their  first  estate  he  hath  reserved  in  ever- 
lasting chains."  "Having  saved  the  people 
out  of  the  land  of  Egypt,"  he  "afterward 
destroyed  them  that  believed  not." 


18  BROADCAST. 

CONTINUED  infancy  in  spiritual  things 
was  owing  to  contention,  in  the  case  of 
the  Corinthians.  So  in  any  church,  —  a  quar- 
rel keeps  people  from  spiritual  growth.  Few 
things  are  worse  than  disturbances  in  a  Christ- 
ian church.  Its  meetings  are  a  refuge,  and  a 
covert,  from  public,  domestic,  private  trials ; 
but  when  the  church  is  disturbed,  we  seem  to 
be  homeless.  Woe  to  him  who  disturbs  the 
peace  of  Christ's  house. 


A  TRULY  converted  man  by  his  fall  into 
sin  may  in  the  lapse  of  years  be  found 
to  have  been  the  means  of  vast  good  in  keep- 
ing others  steadfast.  But  we  are  inclined  to 
think  only  of  the  scandal  brought  on  religion 
in  such  a  case.  The  more  prompt  and  vin- 
dictive the  detection  and  punishment  of  coun- 
terfeiting, the  greater  the  proof  that  there  is 
a  sound  currency,  and  that  men  value  it  as 
they  ought. 


BROADCAST,  19 

MODESTY  and  humility  should  be  in 
proportion  to  gifts.  Gabriel  is  proba- 
bly most  meek.  Moses  had  a  greater  combina- 
tion of  talent  than  any  other  mortal,  and  he 
was  the  meekest  of  men.  Of  others,  take  Sir 
Isaac  Newton,  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds,  Lady 
Huntington,  for  examples. 


ELISHA'S  predicting  to  Hazael  his  reign 
and  wickedness,  and  HazaeFs  fulfilment 
of  the  prediction,  show  that  the  clearest  dis- 
closures of  future  retribution  by  one  from  the 
dead  would  not,  of  themselves,  deter  wicked 
men  from  sin  and  its  known  consequences. 


RELIGION  is  hostile  only  to  that  which 
is  hostile  to  religion.      It  is  no   enemy 
to  innocent  pleasure,  but  its  best  friend. 


20  BROADCAST. 

WHAT  mysteriousness  is  there  in  moral 
culture,  development  ?  None  at  all. 
Yet  this  with  many  is  conversion.  But  Christ 
represents  regeneration  as  a  mystery,  and  lik- 
ens it  to  the  mystery  of  the  wind.  Now  what 
have  I  ever  experienced,  what  do  I  preach, 
as  to  Regeneration,  which  makes  me  feel  the 
appropriateness  of  the  Saviour's  illustration, 
"  so  is  every  one  that  is  born  of  the  Spirit "  ? 
— He  experiences  something  more  mysterious 
than  merely  changing  his  views.  That  does 
not  satisfy  the  illustration  of  Christ. 


^  f^  HIEFLY  that  unto  them  were  commit- 
V^  ted  the  oracles  of  God."  This  reason 
assigned  for  the  pre-eminent  advantage  of  the 
Jew  over  all  others,  namely,  that  he  received 
those  communications  from  God  of  which  the 
Old  Testament  is  a  record,  is  a  powerful  con- 
futation of  modem  cavils  against  the  elder 
Scripture. 


BROADCAST.  21 

I  CAN  see  no  sufficient  reason  in  myself  why 
I  should  be  forgiven,  says  a  sinner.  True, 
and  therefore  God  says,  "I,  even  I,  am  he 
that  blotteth  out  thy  transgressions  for  mine 
own  sake."  Are  you  not  willing  to  be  for- 
given, if  God  may  get  honor  by  it  ?  Plead 
that  as  the  reason  why  you  may  look  for  par- 
don and  salvation. 


THE  condescending  kindness  of  God,  and 
his  care  for  his  Church,  are  illustrated 
in  his  first  revealing  his  name,  Jehovah,  in 
connection  with  the  deliverance  of  Israel  out 

of  Egypt. 


NO  one  can  long  be  a  secret  follower  of 
Christ.  "He  entered  into  an  house, 
and  would  have  no  man  know  it  ;  but  he 
could  not  be  hid."  If  Christ  be  in  you,  it 
will  be  known. 


22  BROADCAST. 

THE  fearlessness  with  which  the  Bible 
asserts  divine  sovereignty,  decrees,  di- 
vine agency,  irrespective  of  cavils  and  philo- 
sophical objections,  should  at  least  keep  us 
from  dwelling  wholly  on  the  side  of  human 
accountability.  "  For  God  hath  put  in  their 
hearts  to  fulfil  his  will."     The  two  things  are 

o 

equally  true,  and  they  coexist. 


WE  may  fear  for  the  piety  of  one  who 
beheves  in  Christian  perfection  in  this 
life.  There  are  two  reasons;  he  has  probably 
never  seen  the  plague  of  his  own  heart;  and 
he  does  not  seem  to  trust  wholly  to  the  right- 
eousness of  Christ.  A  man  who  feels  that  he 
can  be  sinless,  does  not  know  the  spirituality 
of  God's  law ;  and  thinking  so  much  of  his 
sinlessness,  he  does  not,  like  Paul,  have  that 
self-renunciation  which  they  have  who  are 
"  found  in  him,  not  having  their  own  right- 


BROADCAST.  23 

"  TTVORBEAR  thee  from  meddling  with 
JL  God."  This  was  good  advice,  though 
from  a  heathen  king,  and  it  must  have  been 
a  great  reproof  to  Josiah.  We  must  learn 
when  to  yield  before  the  force  of  circum- 
stances, and  change  our  plan ;  and  when  to 
refrain  from  interposing,  however  kind  our  in- 
tentions may  be,  in  the  affairs  of  others. 


WHEN  we  speak  against  acting  with  a 
view  to  reward,  we  are  in  danger  of 
being  wiser  than  God.  We  may  trust  him 
with  the  morahty  of  the  motives  which  he 
proposes.  "  Be  not  overmuch  righteous ;  why 
shouldest  thou  destroy  thyself?  "  There  is  no 
danger  in  doing  anything  and  everything  with 
a  view  to  the  Divine  approbation.  Think  of 
Moses :  "  For  he  had  respect  unto  the  rec- 
ompense of  the  reward."  Think  of  Christ, 
"who,  for  the  joy  set  before  him,  endured 
the  cross." 


24  BROADCAST. 

"  'VT'E  are  as  graves."  Graves  are  sometimes 
i  covered  with  Italian  marble,  beautiful 
images  repose  upon  them,  green  sods,  flowers, 
adorn  them,  the  small  bird  builds  her  nest  in 
the  grass  ;  the  eye  is  charmed,  the  heart 
touched  ;  we  linger  there.  Then  there  are 
graves  where  there  are  but  slight  signs  of 
interment,  the  mounds,  if  any,  are  sunken,  and 
men  walk  over  them.  In  both,  a  disclosure 
would  fill  us  with  horror.  Ye  are  as  graves ! 
What  an  image  have  we  here  from  Him  who 
spake  as  never  man  spake. 


THE  Few.  —  There  is  "  a  few  "  in  every 
church  who  are  the  heart.  —  The  few 
save  the  many.  —  The  few  do  most  of  the 
work.  —  Christ  began  with  a  few.  "  Many 
are  called,  but  few  are  chosen."  Some  for- 
merly proposed  to  render  this,  "  choice  ones." 
The  truth  would  warrant  this  translation  better 
than  the  Greek. 


BROADCAST.  25 

ON  pleasing  God.  —  If  we  live  a  good 
life,  we  shall  always  be  likely  to  do 
some  special  act  which  will  greatly  please  God. 
Abraham's  offering  of  Isaac  was  not  a  solitary 
act,  but  the  result  of  a  good  state  of  heart. 
But  it  secured  for  him  the  promises.  God 
will  furnish  us  with  opportunities  for  special 
acts  of  obedience,  if  we  live  near  to  Him. 


OUR  nature,  it  seems,  is  capable  of  a  per- 
sonal union  with  Deity.  Strange  that 
this  truth  as  set  forth  in  the  person  of  Christ 
should  meet  with  opposition.  It  opens  to  us 
an  inconceivable  prospect  as  to  the  capacities 
of  the  soul.  Can  Deity  personally  coexist 
with  our  nature,  act  through  it,  retain  it  for- 
ever,—  not  assuming  it  for  a  temporary  pur- 
pose, and  then  laying  it  aside,  but  through 
eternity  using  it  as  a  medium  of  manifestation  ? 
"  It  doth  not  yet  appear  what  we  shall  be." 
"But  — we  shall  be  like  Him." 


26  BROADCAST. 

THERE  is  an  important  difference  be- 
tween love  and  kindness.  Some  love 
you  who  really  are  not  kind.  Again,  we  may 
be  kind  where  we  may  not  love.  The  two 
things  go  well  together ;  and  loving-kindness 
is  most  beautiful.  God  uses  the  word  often 
in  speaking  to  us. 


PAUL  makes  asseverations  that  he  did  not 
"  lie  "  in  what  he  said.  Were  his  friends 
so  untruthful  when  pagans  that  they  now 
needed  strong  assertions  ?  There  are  cases  in 
which  we  must  not  stand  upon  our  dignity, 
but  deny,  assert,  assure,  and  use  protestations 
of  truth  and  innocency. 


OTHAT  this  could  be  said  of  us:  "And 
by  their  prayer  for  you  which  long  after 
you  for  the  exceeding  grace  of  God  in  you.'* 


BROADCAST. 


27 


THE  power  of  present  discouragement  to 
make  us  forego  all  our  previous  hopes 
and  expectations,  and  to  practically  annihilate 
the  promises  of  God,  is  illustrated  in  Elijah, 
who  seems  to  have  had  some  intimation  of  his 
future  translation  to  heaven,  but  under  the 
juniper-tree  offers  to  relinquish  that  distinction 
and  privilege,  saying,  "  Take  away  my  life,  for 
I  am  not  better  than  my  fathers " ;  so  let 
me  die  as  they  died,  only  be  it  now.  —  God  was 
better  to  him  than  he  and  we  would  be  to 
ourselves,  could  we  have  our  desires. 


ONE  frequent  cure  of  religious  despond- 
ency, when  it  is  not  owing  to  bodily 
distemper,  is,  a  clear  apprehension  of  the  dis- 
tinction between  Faith  and  Hope.  We  are 
not  justified  by  Hope.  That  is  not  the  ground 
of  pardon.  Remember  hun  "  who  against 
hope  believed."  There  may  be  faith  where 
hope  seems  to  be  out  of  the  question. 


28  BROADCAST. 

IF  one  will  reflect  upon  the  nature  and 
number  of  his  rehgious  opportunities,  his 
instructions,  his  liberty  to  be  alone  for  reflec- 
tion, his  calls  from  the  pulpit,  from  providence, 
and  in  his  conscience,  his  Sabbaths,  his  years 
of  Christian  privileges,  he  cannot  but  see  that 
he  might  have  saved  his  soul  a  thousand  times, 
and  that  there  is  no  reason  why  eternal  con- 
sequences should  not  follow  even  this  short 
life. 


•^XXTE  pray  you  in   Christ's   stead."     A 
T  T      high  commission.     And   how  would 
Christ    "  pray  you "  ?     "  Lord,    teach    us    to 
pray,"   in  this  sense  also. 


THEY  who  fear  God  need  not  be  afraid 
of  him ;   but   they  will  be   sure  to  be 
afraid  of  him  who  do  not  fear  him. 


BROADCAST.  29 

WE  all  seem  to  take  it  for  granted  that 
few  comparatively  will  be  lost.  Some 
say  it  to  apologize  for  future  punishment.  But 
the  majority  may  be  lost,  and  illustrate  to  other 
beings  what  sin  can  do,  seeing  that  only  a  mi- 
nority of  those  for  whom  God  became  incarnate 
accepted  his  redemption.  By  all  calculations, 
so  many  will  perish  as  to  make  endless  punish- 
ment as  great  a  mystery  as  though  there  were 
a  thousand  times  more.  This  world  is  not  the 
universe. 


THERE  is  great  power  in  a  friendly  visit, 
a  single  call,  at  the  right  time,  under 
certain  circumstances,  and  with  benevolent  mo- 
tives. Gifts  and  alms  are  well,  but  your  pres- 
ence is  the  greatest  attention.  A  call  well 
devised  and  properly  made  sometimes  has  in- 
fluence for  life.  "  When  he  was  in  Rome,  he 
sought  me  out  very  diligently  and  found  me. 
The  Lord  grant  unto  him  that  he  may  find 
mercy  of  the  Lord  in  that  day." 


30  BROADCAST. 

NO  subsequent  good  conduct  can  restore 
men  to  Christian  society  if  they  do  cer- 
tain evil  things.  He  who  yields  to  certain 
temptations  must  know  that  it  is  for  his  life. 
The  rigor  of  public  moral  sentiment  in  this 
direction  is  a  safeguard  to  virtue. 


THE  design  of  Christ's  death  is  to  save 
the  elect,  while  it  is  sufficient  for  all. 
The  clear  and  fiill  belief  of  this  will  exalt  our 
conceptions  of  his  love  to  the  Church,  that  is, 
to  the  individuals  composing  it.  "  Christ  also 
loved  the  Church,  and  gave  himself  for  it." 


IF  God  uses  others,  and  not  us,  to  glorify 
him  in  undesirable  ways,  we  ought  to  be 
grateful,  and  more  zealous,  and  more  useful, 
and  watch. 


BROADCAST.  31 

SOMETIMES  you  question  whether  every- 
thing is  not  an  illusion,  even  the  great 
verities  of  the  Christian  faith.  It  is  a  vaporish 
state  of  mind.  Do  not  give  utterance  to  it 
except  in  prayer.  Look  into  the  Bible,  turn 
over  the  pages  here  and  there,  and  something 
will  strike  you  with  the  force  of  reality.  Some 
feelings  cannot  be  reasoned  down,  for  they  did 
not  come  through  reasoning. 


BEGIN  with  Love.  Anything  which 
makes  you  love  will  make  you  penitent 
and  believing.  Instead  of  trying  to  excite  grief 
for  sin,  and  faith,  fix  your  grateful  love  on  the 
Saviour,  and  everything  else  will  flow  in  upon 
your  heart.  "Her  sins,  which  are  many,  are 
forgiven,  for  she  loved  much."  She  loved  be- 
fore she  was  aware  that  she  had  saving  faith, 
or  true  repentance.  Love  involves  them.  Love 
is  not  only  the  fulfilling  of  the  Law,  it  is  the 
fulfilling  of  the  Gospel. 


32  BROADCAST. 

"  ^^  OD  was  manifest  in  the  flesh."  Fear- 
VJ^  lessly  spoken.  Let  us  dwell  upon  it 
more,  in  its  literal  acceptation.  The  Supreme 
Deity  of  Jesus  Christ  is  the  corner-stone  of 
Christianity.  It  is  infinitely  grand,  ennobhng. 
It  shapes  our  whole  belief.  All  our  views  of 
God  depend  upon  this.  The  union  of  God  in 
Christ,  —  the  God-man,  —  is  the  all-important 
truth. 


ASSURANCE  of  faith,  and  joy,  are  not 
the  chief  evidences  of  acceptance  with 
God,  as  we  incline  to  make  them.  Self-loath- 
ing, and  humility,  are  as  good  signs  of  grace 
as  they. 


JEHOSHAPHAT'S  weakness  was,  alliance 
with  bad  characters.  How  foohshly  he 
went  into  it,  in  the  case  of  Ahab,  and  of  Ahaziah, 
2  Chron.  xviii.  and  xx. 


BROADCAST. 


3a 


To  leave  men  free,  yet  accountable,  is  in- 
finite wisdom,  God  does  not  govern 
men  as  he  governs  planets.  To  govern  them 
while  they  are  at  the  same  time  wholly  re- 
sponsible, is  the  great  mystery  and  the  divine 
glory  of  his  administration. 


WE  carry  our  disposition,  temper,  and 
manners  even  into  our  treatment  of 
our  God.  How  do  we  behave  ourselves  to- 
ward him  ?  Are  we  agreeable  companions 
for  those  heavenly  visitors  who  say,  "  We  will 
come  unto  him  and  make  our  abode  with  him"  ? 


IN  vain  do  I  urge  against  God's  mercy, — 
I  am  a  sinner.  That  is  provided  for. 
"  "When  we  were  yet  without  strength,  — 
Christ  died  for  the  ungodly." 


2* 


34  BROADCAST. 

IT  is  a  great  and  good  thing  for  God  to  give 
us  a  heart  for  any  duty  or  event.  With 
the  heart  in  it,  a  labor,  or  sacrifice,  or  an  event, 
becomes  changed.  Difiiculties  disappear,  the 
complexion  of  things  is  altered.  We  become 
qualified  at  once  for  a  difficult  situation  to  which 
we  are  called,  by  having  another  heart  given  us. 
King  Saul  was  thus  favored.  He  shrunk  from 
promotion.  God  gave  him  another  heart,  a 
spirit  and  fi:ame  of  mind  congenial  with  his 
new  duties.  It  was  not  "  a  new  heart,"  but  it 
was  good,  and  it  was  an  unspeakable  help. 


THE  sublimest  truths  are  familiarly  em- 
ployed in  the  Bible  for  personal  appHca- 
tion.  "  Let  this  mind  be  in  you  which  was 
also  in  Christ  Jesus,  who,  being  in  the  form 
of  God,  thought  it  not  robbery  to  be  equal 
with  God,"  &c.  —  Notice  the  exhortations  to 
"servants,"  leading  directly  to  the  grandest 
propositions  concerning    the   Christian  system. 


I 


BROADCAST.  35 

TWO  things  are  essential  if  a  man  would 
preach  any  considerable  time  to  the  same 
people,  viz.  "  Long-suffering  and  Doctrine." 
Without  long-suffering,  he  will  be  wearied  by 
want  of  success  and  by  his  various  trials ;  and 
without  doctrine  he  will  be  vapid,  a  mere  ex- 
horter,  draw  from  an  empty  well,  drive  away 
the  thinking  portion  of  his  hearers,  or  make 
them  turn  him  away  for  one  who  will  feed 
them  with  knowledge  as  well  as  emotion.  Paul, 
the  preacher,  knew  what  he  did  when  he  was 
led  to  use  those  words,  "long-suffering  and 
doctrine." 


^^TrrvXERCISE  thyself  unto  godliness." 
-Ly  The  word  in  the  original  refers  to 
Gymnastics.  Practise  in  being  good.  Use 
means,  arts,  self-denial,  labor,  be  ingenious 
in  seeking  to  be  godly.  It  is  not  a  matter 
of  course  to  be  godly.  It  requires  practice, 
training,  exercise.  The  exhortation  was  to 
Timothy,  a  minister,  from  the  great  Apostle. 


36  BROADCAST. 

CHRISTIANS  should  make  a  study  of 
Christian  morals,  and  seek  to  be  exem- 
plary in  morality.  The  world  appreciates  that, 
and  cannot  understand  spirituality.  But  if 
men  see  Christians  made  better  in  that  which 
is  the  world's  rehgion,  that  is,  morality,  it  leads 
them  to  think  that  there  is  a  reaUty  in  Chris- 
tian experience. 


I 


KNOW  how  well  my  heart  hath  earned 

A  chastisement  like  this. 
In  trifling  many  a  grace  away 

In  self-complacent  bliss." 


Great  penetration  and  self-knowledge  are  in 
these  words.  There  is  a  spiritual  luxury,  and 
spiritual  pride.  Work  is  one  antidote  and  cure. 
Some  Christians  are  like  sponges  on  the  rocks 
at  Corfu,  now  dry,  now  fiUed  with  water,  then 
dry,  to  be  saturated  again.  And  there  they 
cleave  and  cling  to  one  spot,  and  do  no  good. 
The  ocean  of  divine  truth  only  fills  them,  while 
they  ought  to  be  emptying  their  gains  on  others. 


BROADCAST. 


37 


THERE  is  misanthropy  sometimes  among 
those  who  profess  to  love  God  and 
their  brother  also.  They  avoid  intercourse 
and  contact  with  others.  The  cure  is,  to  mix 
with  others  in  order  to  give  pleasure,  not  to 
get  it ;  "  not  to  be  ministered  unto,  but  to 
minister."  To  shun  society,  and  shut  one's 
self  up  in  himself,  is  less  than  human.  "  Then 
the  beasts  go  into  dens,  and  remain  in  their 
places."  It  is  the  cold  which  makes  them 
do  so. 


TAKE  example  from  Christ,  sitting  on 
the  well,  and  talking  with  one  person, 
no  matter  whom.  How  she  spread  his  words. 
And  what  words  they  were !  The  doctrine 
of  the  universality  of  acceptable  worship  was 
propounded  there,  and  the  axe  laid  at  the 
root  of  prescription  and  formalism  in  religion. 
We  must  not  be  penurious  of  our  thoughts, 
nor  refuse  to  preach  our  best  sermons  on  rainy 
days  to  a  few  hearers. 


38  BROADCAST. 

"  1 1  ^HERE  is  that  for  bashfulness  promiseth 
3,  his  friend,  and  maketh  him  his  enemy 
for  nothing."  (Ecclesiasticus  xx.)  A  too 
ready  way  of  assenting  and  agreeing  with  an- 
other, from  fear  of  saying  No,  and  then  finding 
that  the  engagement  is  impracticable,  and  thence 
an  affront  given  by  seeming  indifference  or 
want  of  faithfulness,  are  referred  to  in  this  wise 
observation  of  human  conduct.  Lasting  aliena- 
tions have  grown  up  in  this  way,  and  all  "  for 
nothing." 


NEVER  make  a  mistake,  meet  with  a 
disappointment,  suffer,  lose  anything 
which  you  prized,  or  go  through  any  sorrow, 
without  causing  it  to  be  a  source  of  instruc- 
tion. "  Who,  passing  through  the  valley  of 
Baca,  make  it  a  well."  True  wisdom  this,  in- 
stead of  abandoning  ourselves  to  grief.  Rather 
say,  What  am  I  to  learn,  be,  do,  as  the  result 
of  this  trial  ?  So  dig  in  the  valley  of  sorrow  ; 
it  is  full  of  springs  not  far  below  the  surface. 


BROADCAST.  89 

IT  must  be  a  great  satisfaction  to  a  good 
man,  after  the  day  of  judgment,  to  feel  that 
he  has  had  his  heart  and  his  Hfe  ransacked, 
turned  inside  out,  everything  explained,  defined, 
acknowledged,  confessed,  forgiven,  settled ;  and 
thenceforth  no  more  need,  with  him,  of  judg- 
ment days. 


SOME  people  suffer  long  and  bitterly,  and 
do  not  concern  themselves  to  know  the 
cause.  "  Then  there  was  a  famine  —  three 
years,  —  and  David  inquired  of  the  Lord,"  and 
he  said,  "It  is  for  Saul  and  for  his  bloody 
house,  because  he  slew  the  Gibeonites." 


"XT  THERE  also  our  Lord  was  crucified." 
▼  ▼      Earth    seen    from    other    worlds    is 
perhaps  designated  by  this  event,  irrespective 
of  latitude  and  longitude  upon  its  surface. 


40  BROADCAST. 

DIFFICULTIES  with  the  truth  are  in 
danger  of  making  us  part  company  with 
Christ.  "  This  is  an  hard  saying,  who  can 
hear  it?  —  From  that  time  many  of  his  disci- 
ples went  back  and  walked  no  more  with  him. 
Then  said  Jesus  unto  the  twelve,  Will  ye  also 
go  away?"  So  a  personal  attachment  to  the 
Saviour  helps  us  to  understand,  or  at  least  to 
receive  with  meekness,  many  difficult  things  in 
rehgion. 


WHAT  a  glorious  creation  Christ  is,  as 
God -man.  "He  is  the  beginning 
(stands  at  the  head)  of  the  creation  of  God." 
So  he  is  the  goal  for  which  our  nature  is  to  run. 


IF  one  can  bring  himself  to  admit  the  God- 
head of  Jesus  Christ,  it  will  prove  a  solvent 
for  a  great  many  difficulties  in  religion. 


BROADCAST.  41 

TALKING  plainly,  patiently,  and  to  your 
utmost  satisfaction,  with  argument  and 
illustration,  to  one  who  differs  from  you,  but  is 
wilhng  to  hear,  you  are  perhaps  surprised  to 
find  how  little  impression  you  have  made  upon 
him.  So  one  who  had  tried  to  give  a  blind 
man  an  idea  of  the  distinction  between  colors 
was  affected  when  the  poor  man  quietly  re- 
marked at  the  close,  "  I  have  an  idea  that  red 
is  something  like  the  sound  of  a  trumpet." 
"  The  natural  man  receiveth  not  the  things  of 
the  Spirit  of  God."  "  Nicodemus  answered  and 
said  unto  him,  How  can  these  things  be?" 


THE  Psalms  of  David  are  true  theology. 
Poetry,  in  its  true  sense,  is  the  highest 
effort  of  the  human  soul.  Rehgion  expressed 
in  the  Psalms  is  the  vital  action  of  the 
renewed  heart.  The  distinction  is  a  very  nice 
and  critical  one  between  the  theology  of  the 
intellect  and  the  theology  of  the  feehngs. 


42  BROADCAST. 

"  T  EST  if  thou  be  silent  unto  me,  I  be- 
JL>  come  like  them  that  go  down  into  the 
pit."  How  indispensable  communion  with  God 
had  become  to  this  man!  It  should  be  painful, 
nay,  distressing  to  us,  not  to  have  God  make 
us  feel  that  he  regards  and  hears  us. 


IT  would  be  good  to  live  through  a  week 
with  the  Sabbath  in  anticipation.  It  would 
be  likely  to  be  a  good  Sabbath  to  us.  It  would 
shed  its  light  forward  into  the  next  week,  and 
meet  the  coming  Lord's  day. 


APPLY  those  subHme  words  to  perished 
hopes,  lost  fortimes,  departed  joys,  cloud- 
ed prospects,  ill  success,  —  "I  am  the  Resur- 
rection and  the  Life."  They  are  as  true  of 
these  as  they  are  of  our  dead  bodies. 


BROADCAST. 


43 


«  T)REPARE  a  place  for  you."  —  Then 
A  everything  is  not  already  fixed  and 
settled,  with  monotonous  uniformity,  like  the 
twenty  or  thirty  tenements  in  a  block  of 
buildings.  But  there  will  be  adaptedness  to 
our  tastes,  our  characters,  our  conduct,  our 
connections,  our  future  occupation.  "I  — 
prepare  a  place  for  you,"  I,  who,  as  man, 
know  and  appreciate  all  your  feelings  and 
wishes.  His  eye  is  on  us  while  he  is  prepar- 
ing our  place.  He  may  be  influenced  in  his 
preparation  by  his  observation  of  us. 

"  He  lives,  my  mansion  to  prepare ; 
He  lives  to  bring  me  safely  there." 


WE  have  never  had  a  true  conception  of 
grandeur,  we  shall  say,  when  we  see 
the  second  coming  of  Christ.  "  He  shall  come 
in  his  own  glory,  and  in  the  glory  of  the  Father, 
and  of  the  holy  angels."  Distinguish  between 
these,  and  then  combine  them. 


44  BROADCAST. 

WHAT  " change "  did  Job  refer  to ?  "If 
a  man  die,  shall  he  live  again  ?  All  the 
days  of  my  appointed  time  will  I  wait  till  my 
change  come."  Was  not  resurrection  in  his 
thoughts  ?  He  had  been  speaking  of  living 
again.  Moreover,  see  the  next  verse :  "  Thou 
shalt  call,  and  I  will  answer  thee;  thou  wilt 
have  a  desire  to  the  work  of  thy  hands."  A 
believer  in  the  Resurrection  feels  that  there  is 
something  in  these  words  which  a  cold-heart- 
ed, sceptical  neologist  will  prove,  perhaps  to 
demonstration,  can  by  no  possibility  be  derived 
from  it. 


THAT  festoon  made  by  the  Aurora  Bo- 
realis,  August  28,  1859,  seemed  to  be 
directly  over  your  dwelling.  A  million  of 
people  probably  thought  the  same,  each  of  his 
dweUing.  So  the  Bible  is  all  yours,  all  its 
promises,  its  God,  its  Saviour,  all  yours,  as 
though  there  were  not  millions  to  share  them 
with  you,  and  think  the  same. 


BROADCAST.  45 

BECAUSE  "Billingsgate"  became  what  it 
is,  say  only  one  hundred  and  fifty  years 
ago,  therefore  there  was  no  vituperative  lan- 
guage previous  to  that  time !  Such  is  the  argu- 
ment, translated,  of  those  who  say  that,  because 
Gehenna  became  such  as  it  was  about  such  a 
year,  therefore  there  was  no  hell  previously. 
Moreover,  inasmuch  as  Jerusalem  rose  only 
with  the  kings  of  Israel,  there  was  no  heaven 
before,  because  a  familiar  name  of  heaven  is 
"  Jerusalem." 


REWARDS  from  God  are  mercy.  "  Also 
unto  thee,  O  Lord,  belongeth  mercy ;  for 
thou  renderest  to  every  man  according  to  his 
works."  We  should  call  this  justice.  Not  so 
to  a  sinner  who  has  forfeited  everything.  It  is 
infinite  mercy  to  reward  the  works  of  one  who 
can  do  nothing  meritorious  in  the  way  of  justi- 
fication. This  is  an  indirect  assertion,  in  the 
Old  Testament,  of  the  great  idea  of  salvation 
by  grace. 


[TJiri7BRSlT7] 


46  BROADCAST. 

DAVID  with  some  seems  to  be  less  confi- 
dent in  hope  after  his  fall  than  before, 
judging  from  his  Psalms.  See  the  ineffaceable 
influence  upon  the  soul,  of  transgression  I 


THEOLOGY  is  not  mere  knowing  for 
the  sake  of  knowing ;  but  to  hve  nearer 
to  God.  A  theologian  ought  to  have  fervent 
piety,  unction.  Otherwise,  he  is  mere  lead- 
pipe  or  water-log. 


THERE  are  exquisite  touches  of  beautiful 
social  feelings  in  Paul's  Epistles.  Here 
is  one :  "  For  he  longed  after  you  all,  and  was 
full  of  heaviness,  because  that  ye  had  heard  that 
he  had  been  sick."  It  is  a  refinement  of  love, 
indeed,  to  yearn  after  those  who  had  had  solici- 
tude for  our  affliction.  Such  refinement  the 
religion  of  Jesus  produces  in  pagan  bosoms. 


BROADCAST.  47 

WE  do  well  to  conceive,  if  we  can,  what 
a  change  of  affairs  there  will  be  when 
this  w^hole  mediatorial  kingdom  comes  to  an  end. 
The  principles  of  it  now  run  through  all  our 
social  existence,  enter  into  all  the  dealings  of 
God  with  us,  both  in  his  common  providence 
and  in  his  grace.  To  withdraw  this  mediato- 
rial element  is  like  withdrawing  caloric  or  oxy- 
gen from  nature.  "  Who  shall  live  when  God 
doeth  this?"  "Then  cometh  the  end,  when 
He  shall  deliver  up  the  kingdom  to  God,  even 
the  Father." 


JOB  tells  us  (ch.  xxx.)  how,  as  a  magistrate, 
he  had  dealt  with  the  wretched  scum  of 
society,  the  pestilent  fellows,  the  plunderers, 
the  villains  of  his  day.  But  now,  he  says,  in  his 
adversity,  they  return  upon  him.  His  descrip- 
tion of  them,  and  of  the  indignities  which  he 
suffered  from  them,  is  a  vivid  picture  of  future 
misery  in  the  next  world  from  a  similar  source. 
"  Gather  not  my  soul  with  sinners." 


48  BROADCAST. 

THE  pleasures  of  sin  are  very  sweet ;  let 
us  not  deny  it.  But  "  the  pleasures  of 
sin  for  a  season,"  —  this  expression  warns  us  of 
the  bitter  end.  The  everlasting  loss  of  pleas- 
ure will  be  aggravated  by  the  recollections  of  it. 
Suppose  the  desires  of  sinners  to  be  eternal. 
Dante  pictures  this  like  no  one  else.  Some 
dear  young  friends,  with  everything  to  tempt 
them,  wisely  say,  We  wish  to  be  happy  forever, 
and  our  bliss  will  begin  when  that  of  the  devo- 
tee of  the  world  ends.  Besides,  we  are  hap- 
pier now  than  he. 


DOES  Job  now  curse  the  day  of  his 
birth  ?  Far  different  would  his  lan- 
guage be  could  he  now  return  and  suffer. 
The  book  of  which  he  was  the  occasion  is 
worth  to  him  a  thousand  times  all  his  tribu- 
lation. When  we  are  plunged  into  great  and 
strange  trials,  let  us  look  forward  a  thousand 
years ;  let  us  imagine  what  fruit  God  may  be 
purposing  to  raise  out  of  our  affliction. 


BROADCAST. 


49 


THE  silent  influence  of  a  pious  home  is 
illustrated  by  the  Prodigal  Son.  Had 
that  home  been  repulsive  to  him,  or  had  his 
father  been  a  stern,  forbidding  man,  that  re- 
covering thought  about  home  would  not  have 
visited  him.  Take  courage,  parents  of  prodi- 
gals, if  you  were  faithful  with  God  and  your 
family  altars.  Persevere,  parents,  in  family  re- 
ligion. It  may  be  like  the  fabulous  song  of 
the  sea  in  the  shell,  to  the  ear  of  a  child  when 
far  from  home  and  from  God. 


CONSIDERING  the  Incarnation,  the  Sac- 
rifice, the  Resurrection,  Ascension,  Me- 
diatorship  of  our  Lord,  not  to  obey  from  the 
heart  his  commands  in  tiie  Gospel,  is  justly 
declared  a  crime,  subjecting  us  to  the  wrath  of 
God.  Substitute  an  earthly  parent,  husband, 
master,  for  Christ,  and  suppose  all  to  be  done 
which  Christ  has  done,  and  how  would  we  re- 
gard a  corresponding  neglect  and  disobedience  ? 


50  BROADCAST. 

NATIONS  losing  the  knowledge  of  the 
true  God,  have  not  at  once  had  it  re- 
stored to  them.  They  who  dwell  exclusively 
on  the  paternal  character  of  God  cannot  ex- 
plain this.  Were  the  relation  of  father  the 
only  type  of  God's  relation  to  man,  he  would 
have  hastened  to  restore  his  worship  to  the 
descendants  of  those  who  once  knew  but  for- 
sook him.  "  Who  in  times  past  suffered  all 
nations  to  walk  in  their  own  ways."  And 
how  did  they  walk  I  See  here  the  retributive 
and  vindictive  element  in  the  Divine  adminis- 
tration. 


COUNT  up  special  instances  of  Divine 
interposition  in  your  history,  cases  in 
which  God  signally  appeared  for  your  relief. 
How  many  do  you  find  yourself  able  to 
recall  ?  Then  read,  —  "  And  the  Lord  was 
angry  with  Solomon  because  his  heart  was 
turned  from  the  Lord  God  of  Israel,  which 
had  appeared  unto  him  twice." 


BROADCAST.  51 

"Ti  >TINE  hand  shall  not  be  upon  thee." 
X  T  A  Conscious  of  receiving  a  great  wrong, 
it  has  wonderful  power  to  forbear  retaliation. 
We  are  thereby  made  superior  to  the  evil-doer. 
We  leave  the  case  with  God.  Soon  the  thought 
of  God  as  an  avenger  makes  us  pity,  and  even 
love,  the  adversary. 


«  T  T  UMBLE  yourselves,  therefore."  You 
JL  X  have  met  with  a  great  blow.  The 
first  thing  to  be  done  is  to  bow  down  before 
God.  Wait  for  no  explanation,  consolation. 
Your  place  is  in  the  dust  at  once. 


THERE  are  four  different  ways  by  which 
men  expect  and  propose  to  be  saved. 
One  is  Fate.  Another  is  Chance.  A  third 
is  Self.     The  fourth  is  Christ. 


52  BROADCAST. 

REPENTANCE  and  faith  may  be  included 
in  some  one  act  when  the  soul  is  uncon- 
scious of  repenting  or  believing.  The  publican 
in  the  temple  probably  was  not  aware  that  he 
was  complying  with  the  terms  of  salvation. 
The  woman  that  was  a  sinner  probably  made 
no  analysis  of  her  feelings  when  she  wept  at 
the  feet  of  Christ.  Her  love  was  repentance, 
faith,  submission,  consecration,  all  together. 


IT  brings  tears  to  think  how  kind  God  is  to 
reward  our  poor  efforts  for  him,  represent- 
ing himself  as  laid  under  obligation.  "  God  is 
not  unrighteous  to  forget  your  work  and  labor 
of  love."  The  intimation  seems  to  be  that 
God  would  esteem  it  "  unrighteous "  in  him 
not  to  reward  us,  —  instead  of  reminding  us 
that  we  are  unprofitable  servants,  and  that  we 
never  do  more  than  our  duty.  What  a  God 
we  serve  I 


BROADCAST.  53 

*^y^ALL  the  poor,  the  maimed,  &c.  Do- 
\^  ing  good  to  such  serves  to  prevent 
wrong  motives  in  charitable  acts,  and  excites  a 
pure,  disinterested  love,  which  is  most  like  the 
love  of  ministering  angels,  who  get  no  reward 
from  us.  It  is  also  kindred  with  the  love  of 
God  toward  us  and  the  pure  compassion  of 
Christ. 


^  \  ND  Judas  also  knew  the  place."  There 
-ZTjL  is  a  history  in  that  line  which  the  mind 
of  John  might  portray  with  divine  pathos. 
That  place  is  portrayed  in  the  thoughts  of  Ju- 
das, in  "his  own  place."  He  went  there  from 
Gethsemane.     Shall  we? 


ONE  is  interceding  for  us  in  heaven:  — 
"  Sit    ye    here    while  I    go   and    pray 
yonder."     Let  us  watch  with  him. 


54  BROADCAST. 

WHILE  we  must  give  no  directions  to 
a  sinner  whicli  he  might  be  using 
and  yet  perish,  there  are  undoubtedly  means 
of  conversion  which  are  profitably  employed. 
Put  yourself  in  the  way  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 
Go  where  you  think  he  is.  Avoid  things 
which  you  know  hinder  conversion.  "And 
ye  shall  seek  me,  and  find  me,  when  ye  shall 
search  for  me  with  all  your  heart." 


NO  doubt  some  lost  sinners  will  be  exas- 
perated when  they  see  how  God  spares 
their  companions  in  guilt,  and  saves  them 
though  as  deserving  of  perdition  as  themselves. 
What  partiality  I  they  might  say.  No  doubt 
they  resolve  that  such  a  being  is  not  fit  to  reign. 
Perhaps  they  declare  that  they  would  rather 
suffer,  than  love  and  serve  him.  But  there 
were  instances  in  which  others  were  cut  off, 
and  these  complainers  were  left. 


BROADCAST.  55 

^y^WT  all  this  availeth  me  nothing  so  long 
JL  as  I  see  Mordecai  the  Jew  sitting  at  the 
king's  gate."  The  folly  of  cherishing  animos- 
ity against  a  fellow-creature,  brooding  over  your 
prejudice,  conversing  about  it.  Rather  go  and 
see  him,  and  find  something  in  him,  as  you  will, 
to  qualify  your  feelings.  Shall  one  worm  of 
the  dust  make  you  wretched?  spoil  every  pleas- 
ure ?  cover  even  the  face  of  God  ? 


TO  see  beauty  is  to  love  it.  Hence  all 
who  do  not  love  God  do  not  know  him. 
No  matter  whether  prejudice,  or  antipathy,  or 
consciousness  of  sin,  be  the  cause,  the  man 
who  does  not  love  God  does  not  know  him. 
All  such  are  "  Gentiles  that  know  not  God." 
Yet  all  beauty  dwells  in  him  as  its  source. 
The  conception  of  every  beautiful  thing  was 
wdth  him.  Not  to  love  God,  then,  is  entire 
depravity. 


56  BROADCAST. 

«  "TJEFOEE  Abraham  was,  I  am."  "Then 
JL#  the  Jews  took  up  stones  again  to  stone 
him."  The  human  heart  has  strong  repugnance 
to  the  superhuman  nature  of  Christ.  It  requires 
the  submission  of  our  reason  to  faith.  It  is  such 
an  infinite  privilege  to  have  such  a  Saviour  and 
friend  as  Christ,  the  God-man,  must  be,  the 
wonder  is  that  all  are  not  prejudiced  in  favor 
of  his  deity. 


WE  do  not  feel  at  hberty  to  praise  a 
distinguished  man  to  his  face.  But 
we  can  teU  God  all  our  feelings  toward  him, 
and  offer  praises  to  him  continually.  "  O  thou 
that  inhabitest  the  praises  of  Israel." 


SUPPOSE  that  Christ  mterceded  as  we 
pray.  How  can  we  expect  him  to  do 
better  than  we  ?  If  the  chent  is  not  in  ear- 
nest, can  he  blame  his  advocate? 


BROADCAST.  57 

^^1%  /TORE  than  twelve  legions  of  angels." 
Xt  JL  We  should  have  them  at  our  side, 
"  presently,"  if  we  needed  them.  Perhaps  we 
have  them  now.  "  And  behold  the  mountain 
was  full  of  horses  and  chariots  of  fire  round 
about  Elisha." 


DANIEL  showed  his  wisdom  in  simply 
doing  "  as  he  did  aforetime,"  when  the 
decree  was  signed  forbidding  prayer  except  to 
the  king.  He  did  not  increase  his  seasons  of 
devotion,  so  defying  the  law  ;  he  did  not  lift 
up  holy  hands  with  wrath. 


"  \  ^^  Jonah  rose  up  to  flee  from  the 
-ZTX  presence  of  the  Lord."  It  is  easy  to  do 
so  without  going  to  Tarshish.  Avoid  prayer. 
Live  in  a  known  sin.  Neglect  known  duty. 
Be  worldly-minded.      Desecrate  the  Sabbath. 

3* 


58  BROADCAST, 

WHEN  we  have  prayed  for  direction, 
God  leaves  us  in  perplexity,  exhaust- 
ing our  strength,  till  at  last  we  hit  upon  a 
plan,  seemingly  by  accident.  God  thus  hides 
himself,  while  really  at  work  for  us,  to  conceal 
his  agency,  and  exalt  the  duty  of  effort,  and  to 
preserve  and  honor  human  responsibility. 


THERE  are  very  many  instances  in  the 
Bible,  plainly  right,  in  which  our  in- 
stincts would  surely  have  been  at  fault.  For 
example,  Christ's  washing  his  disciples'  feet; 
giving  them  that  repast  on  the  sea-shore, — 
the  fire  being  kindled  by  him,  and  the  fish 
laid  thereon ;  sitting  on  the  ass  in  his  entrance 
to  Jerusalem ;  several  directions  of  a  personal 
nature  to  the  prophets  ;  Moses  shut  out  of  Ca- 
naan, &c.,  &c.  Our  moral  sentiments,  then, 
are  not  the  standard  for  God's  administration. 
We  must  correct  our  moral  sentiments,  as  we 
do  our  chronometers,  by  a  standard. 


BROADCAST.  59 

CHRIST,  apprehended  by  the  affections, 
and  making  himself  an  inmate  of  the 
soul,  shortens  distances,  lightens  labor,  turns 
despondency  to  cheerfulness,  relieves  us  of 
burdensome  responsibihty,  making  us  feel  that 
he  is  working  in  us,  by  us,  and  for  us.  "  Then 
they  willingly  received  him  into  the  ship,  and 
immediately  the  ship  was  at  the  land  whither 
they  went." 


IN  the  stillness  of  Sabbath  mornings,  the 
prevailing  frame  of  mind,  thought,  subject 
on  which  we  dwell,  is  apt  to  show  what  our 
prevailing  frame  has  been  during  the  week. 
It  rises  to  the  top. 


THERE  is  a  remarkable  frequency,  in  the 
Bible,  of  the  expression  "  love  mercy," 
as  applied  to  man. 


60  BROADCAST. 

THINK  of  the  law  of  God  being  en- 
tirely satisfied,  for  Christ's  sake,  with 
a  good  man,  in  his  life  and  conversation,  who 
truly  believes  in  the  justifying  righteousness 
of  Christ.  "  That  the  righteousness  of  the 
law  might  be  fulfilled  in  us,  who  walk  not 
afler  the  flesh,  but  after  the  Spirit." 


THE  soul  will  forever  have  its  deliberate 
choice,  formed  here,  and  persisted  in. 
"  The  fruit  of  his  doings,"  "  the  reward  of 
his  hands,"  will  characterize  every  man's  fu- 
ture condition. 


"  \  -^-^  *^^  prisoners  heard  them."  Chris- 
-Za.  tian  joy  sometimes  has  a  deep  effect 
on  a  sinner,  by  the  contrast  between  his  sad 
and  wicked  heart  and  a  singing,  light-hearted 
Christian. 


BROADCAST.  61 

^  T  ENTERED  into  thine  house  ;  thou  gavest 
JL  me  no  water  for  my  feet."  When  may 
Christ  be  said  to  have  been  in  our  dwelhngs  ? 
How  was  it  at  the  time  of  those  special  bless- 
ings, happy  returns,  great  sorrows  and  joys  ? 
And  how  did  we  treat  him  ?  Was  it  thus  ? 
"  My  head  with  oil  thou  didst  not  anoint." 
"  Thou  gavest  me  no  kiss."  It  seems  that 
the  Saviour  looks  for  tokens  of  our  love,  ap- 
preciates  them,   misses   them. 


ARE  we  in  danger  of  forgetting  the  Fa- 
ther, in  the  work  of  redemption,  in  our 
gratitude  and  love  to  the  suffering  Saviour  ? 
Read  the  "  ascriptions "  at  the  end  of  Dr. 
Watts's  Book  III.  of  Hymns.  They  instruct 
us  on  this  point.  "  Giving  thanks  unto  the 
Father,  which  hath  made  us  meet  to  be  par- 
takers of  the  inheritance  with  the  saints  in 
light."  "  Giving  thanks  unto  God  and  the 
Father  by  him." 


62  BROADCAST, 

THAT  cannot  be  healthful  piety  wnere 
there  is  no  activity  in  doing  good. 
There  is  danger  of  luxuriously  enjoying  relig- 
ious ordinances.  We  are  in  danger  of  spiritual 
sloth.  Solomon  seems  to  have  great  antipathy 
to  sluggards,  and  we  need  to  apply  his  words 
chiefly  to  spiritual  things.  He  is  wise  who 
mixes  reflective  and  meditative  piety  with  ef- 
forts to  do  good  and  to  communicate. 


^  TJLESSED  are  they  that  keep  judgment, 
-U  and  he  that  doeth  righteousness  at  all 
times."  (Ps.  cvi.  3.)  For  the  first  and  only 
delinquency  may  be  fatal.  Departing  once 
from  a  good  rule  has  often  led  to  a  fire,  or 
bankruptcy,  or  an  accident.  It  is  not.  safe  to 
do  wrong  in  a  single  instance.  The  critical 
moment,  the  test,  may  now  be  upon  us.  How 
little  you  thought  that  that  one  act,  so  con- 
trary to  your  habit,  would  come  to  light,  and 
give  a  wrong  and  an  injurious  impression. 


BROADCAST.  63 

SOME  things  in  the  manner  of  the  New- 
Testament  writers,  in  speaking  of  the 
coming  of  Christ  and  the  end  of  the  world, 
greatly  resemble  the  prophetic  way  of  the  old 
seers.  Prophecy  was  ceasing,  but  those  things 
are  lingering  streaks  of  it  in  the  sky. 


THERE  is  calmness  in  Divine  justice. 
How  slow  ;  how  long  it  waits ;  how 
many  different  things  it  suffers  to  mature  for 
one  purpose  ;  how  quietly  it  inflicts  its  sen- 
tence.     "  Fury  is  not  in  me.'" 


WHEN  Christ  says,  "He  that  is  not 
against  us  is  on  our  part,"  it  is  a 
reflection  on  human  nature,  —  as  though  it 
were  generally  against  him,  and  if  not  so,  it 
is  an  exception. 


64  BROADCAST. 

SEE  the  great  billows  assailing  the  "small 
ship  "  with  Jesus  in  it.  Would  that  the 
disciples  had  had  faith  to  rebuke  the  winds  and 
seas  without  awaking  him.  Would  that  we 
could  always  do  that  which  it  seems  so  desira- 
ble for  them  to  have  done. 


"  T  F  any  man's  work  shall  be  burned,  he  shall 
A  suffer  loss."  And  a  great  loss  it  will 
be,  to  behold  one's  life  a  failure.  Perhaps  a 
minister  here  and  there  may  find  that,  by  some 
great  misconception  of  the  truth,  he  did  no 
good,  though  he  himself  is  saved;  yet  so  as 
by  fire. 


HOW  we  anticipate  an  engagement  with 
an  important  personage.  We  prepare 
ourselves.  —  We  are  soon  to  meet  God  "  Pre- 
pare to  meet  thy  God." 


BROADCAST.  65 

CONSCIENCE  is  capable  of  being  edu- 
cated, and  greatly  needs  it.  Sometimes 
it  is  morbid,  needlessly  sensitive,  leads  us  to  be 
over  righteous,  painfully  and  uselessly  scrupu- 
lous. Our  instincts  are  not  the  supreme  law. 
The  word  of  God  is  the  rule.  "  A  good  con- 
science," in  the  wide  sense  of  that  term,  is  an 
inestimable  blessing.  Good  sense  is  insepara- 
ble from  it.     It  is  in  itself  common  sense. 


DISTINGUISH  between  David's  con- 
sciousness of  rectitude  (Ps.  xviii.)  and 
spiritual  pride,  or  self-righteousness.  We  hon- 
or a  suitable  self-esteem,  and  we  despise  that 
derogatory  way  which  some  have  in  speaking 
of  themselves.  While  we  must  not  think  too 
highly  of  ourselves,  and  are  commanded  "to 
think  soberly,"  there  is  a  way  in  which  "we 
ought  to  think."  Self-respect  is  essential  to 
comfort,  and  without  it  we  forfeit  esteem. 


66  BROADCAST. 

THERE  is  power  in  candidly  stating  an 
objection  to  our  side  of  the  question, 
•without  undue  anxiety  to  answer  it.  "  But  the 
Pharisees  said,  He  casteth  out  devils  through 
Beelzebub,  the  chief  of  the  devils."  No  re- 
ply. The  allegation  is  left  to  candor.  There 
is  moral  sublimity  in  this. 


WE  must  "  labor  to  enter  into  that  rest." 
We  are  not  going  thither  as  a  matter 
of  course.  The  means  of  being  saved  are  as 
much  decreed  as  our  salvation.  If  we  use  no 
means,  we  may  not  expect  the  desired  end. 


DEATH  should  not  seem  to  us  like  the 
breaking  down  of  a  carriage  in  an  un- 
finished journey,  but  the  orderly  end  of  a  plan. 
"I  have  finished  my  course,"  says  Paul. 


BROADCAST.  67 

NO  part  of  sacred  history  tetter  illnstrates 
the  suhject  of  Divine  decrees  and  free 
agency,  than  the  history  of  King  Sau].  With 
Samuel  for  his  constant  adviser  and  friend,  with 
the  promises  of  God  sealing  the  selection  of 
him  from  the  whole  people,  coming  as  it  were 
into  the  place  of  God  as  immediate  ruler  of  the 
nation,  not  only  was  he  free,  hut  he  enjoyed 
marvellous  helps  in  being  good.  Upon  his 
transgression,  Samuel  said  to  him,  "  Thou  hast 
done  foolishly ;  —  for  now  would  the  Lord  have 
established  thy  kingdom  upon  Israel  forever." 
To  us  it  is  the  same  as  though  God  had  no 
secret  purposes.  Yet  shall  we  disallow  in  him 
that  which  merchants  and  statesmen  covet, — 
prescience?  Must  God  have  no  purposes  and 
plans,  lest  that  should  seem  to  control  the  crea- 
ture's freedom? 


PETER  and  Judas  in  their  repentance. — 
One  "  went  out  and  wept  bitterly  " ;  the 
other  "went  out,  and  it  was  night." 


68  BROADCAST. 

ONE  reason  why  we  enjoy  no  more  in 
religion  may  be  that  we  think  only  of 
our  feelings  toward  God,  and  not  of  his  feel- 
ings toward  us.  But  "  we  love  him  because 
he  first  loved  us."  This  should  be  our  ex- 
pectation,—  To  receive  from  God,  not  merely 
to  give ;  and  therefore  we  are  to  seek  him 
with  our  wants,  even  more  than  with  our 
offerings. 


PERHAPS  God's  love  of  our  devotional 
acts  is  like  our  love  of  microscopic  beauty 
in  flowers.  At  least,  their  minuteness,  com- 
pared with  the  exercises  of  higher  orders  of 
beings,  may  no  more  be  a  reason  for  his  dis- 
regard of  us,  than  minuteness  is  a  cause  for 
neglect  on  the  part  of  a  philosopher.  There 
are  few  optical  pleasures  greater  than  the  ex- 
amination of  flowers  by  the  aid  of  an  ordinary 
magnifying-glass.  The  surface  of  a  common 
red  pink  exceeds  the  glory  of  Solomon.  Fear 
not  "though  thou  be  little." 


BROADCAST,  69 

**  A  ^^  th®  seven  angels  came  out  of  the 
Jl\.  temple,  having  the  seven  plagues,  clothed 
in  pure  and  white  linen,  and  having  their 
breasts  girded  with  golden  girdles."  Men  gen- 
erally associate  angels  with  birds  and  flowers. 
They  are  executors  of  God's  judgments,  as 
well  as  ministering  spirits.  One  angel  slew  a 
hundred  and  eighty-five  thousand  men  in  one 
night.  Another  directed  a  pestilence  in  Da- 
vid's time.  But  more,  an  angel  slew  all  the 
first-born  of  Egypt.  God's  angels  are  not 
after  the  pattern  of  our  effeminate  conceptions. 
There  is  no  weakness  in  hohness.  "  Strength 
and  beauty  are  in  his  tabernacle." 


THE  quiet  prayer-meeting  at  the  river's 
side  led  to  the  conversion  of  Lydia,  the 
imprisonment  and  release  of  Paul  and  Silas, 
the  conversion  of  the  jailer.  Never  say,  "It 
is  only  a  prayer-meeting." 


70  BROADCAST. 

DO  Christians  become  less  zealous  as  they 
grow  old  ?  They  may  not  be  so  strong 
to  labor,  but  it  would  be  one  of  the  most 
powerful  allegations  against  Christianity,  if 
those  who  had  had  longest  experience  of  it 
should  feel  and  act  as  though  it  were  a  delu- 
sion, or  did  not  make  good  its  promises.  We 
must  conclude  that,  while  there  is  the  same 
variety  of  character  among  the  old  as  among 
the  younger  in  the  Church  of  Christ,  it  is  true 

that 

"  His  grace  will  to  the  end 

Stronger  and  brighter  shine.** 

We  may  suppose  that  the  unfeigned  faith  dwelt 
as  largely  in  the  grandmother  Lois  as  in  .the 
mother  Eunice.  Our  observation  surely  veri- 
fies this. 


"  TT  AST   thou   not  made  an  hedge   about 
J.  X     him  ?  "  —  Satan's  observation  and  re- 
flection with  regard  to  a  good  man  and  God's 
care  of  him. 


BROADCAST.  71 

INDEPENDENT  of  parentage,  marriage, 
relationships  of  any  and  every  kind,  the 
soul  has  a  relation  to  God  which  we  see  and 
feel  when  death  draws  nigh.  It  asserts  itself 
against  father,  mother,  husband,  wife,  child. 
Hence,  make  most  of  that  relation  to  God.  It 
was  prior  to  every  other ;   it  absorbs  them  all. 


EP  H  R  A I M  Syrus  quaintly  represents 
lambs  all  over  the  earth  as  praising 
Christ,  the  Lamb  of  God,  who  terminated 
their  appointment  for  sacrifice.  —  Hence  learn 
how  "  the  whole  creation "  will  one  day  par- 
take in  the  benefits  of  redemption. 


TO  be  kept  from  certain  sins  is  a  proof 
of  God's  love.  "Whoso  pleaseth  God 
shall  escape  from  her ;  but  the  sinner  shall  be 
taken  by  her." 


72  BROADCAST. 

LET  us  be  happy  in  contributing  to  the 
sum  of  human  happiness,  without  os- 
tentation or  hope  of  reward.  A  teamster  has 
dropped  a  billet  of  logwood  from  his  load  in 
the  highway.  You  get  no  reward  for  telling 
him,  but  you  add  so  much  to  the  welfare  of 
the  unknown  proprietor ;  you  cheer  a  laboring 
man  with  a  gleam  of  satisfaction. 


THOUGH  Jesse  was  blameless,  and  Da- 
vid's mother  is  called  "  thy  hand-maid," 
yet  David  says,  "  Behold,  I  was  shapen  in 
iniquity,  and  in  sin   did  my  mother  conceive 


«^TAHERE  is  a  sin  not  unto  death." 
JL  Then,  of  course,  there  is  one  unto 
death,  or  such  an  exceptional  declaration  would 
not  have  been  made.  Hence,  endless  retri- 
bution. 


BROADCAST.  73 

THE  converse  of  that  passage  is  true,  "As 
many  as  I  love,  I  rebuke  and  chasten." 
To  rebuke  and  chasten  a  child  makes  a  parent 
love  him,  and  in  proportion  to  the  good  effect  of 
the  disciphne.  So  again,  God  says  of  Ephraim, 
"  Since  I  spake  against  him,  I  do  earnestly  re- 
member him  still,  —  I  will  surely  have  mercy 
upon  him."     Every  parent  can  understand  this. 


FIFTY-TWO  Sabbaths  come  at  the  close 
of  a  year,  stand  about  you,  and  say, 
We  are  going  to  the  bar  of  God.  We  will 
meet  you  there.      Farewell. 


T 


HERE  is  assimilation  of  character  to  the 
favorite  object  and  chosen  good :  — 

"  Whate'er  thou  lovest,  man,  that  too  become  thou  must ; 
God,  if  thou  lovest  God,  dust,  if  thou  lovest  dust." 

4 


74  BROADCAST. 

BLOOD  must  be  satisiBed.  The  blood  of 
Christ  must  be  satisfied,  by  the  salvation 
or  punishment  of  us  who  shed  it.  "  The  voice 
of  thy  brother's  blood  crieth  unto  me  from  the 
ground."  So  the  blood  of  Christ  has  a  cry. 
It  has  cried  for  eighteen  hundred  years,  and 
is  crying  still.  It  wiU  be  satisfied  by  the 
travail  of  his  soul.  It  must  be  avenged  on 
those  who  count  it  an  unholy  thing. 


^  TTE  wakeneth  morning  by  morning."  — 
A  X  May  God  wake  us  up  every  day  in 
a  right  frame.  How  it  cheers  and  strengthens 
us  for  the  day  to  awake  in  a  good  frame. 
Morning  thoughts  are  regarded  by  us  with  no 
little  interest.  If  we  begin  the  night  with 
God,  we  may  hope  to  say,  "  When  I  awake  I 
am  stiU  with  thee."  God  will  wake  us  up  at 
the  last  day.  May  he  now  do  it,  "  morning 
by  morning." 


BROADCAST.  75 

OTHAT  we  could  have  a  daily  thought 
of  a  suffering,  dying  Saviour !  It  would 
keep  our  hearts  tender,  our  spirits  gentle,  our 
words  mild,  our  tempers  patient,  and  make  us 
more  loving. 

«  Well  he  remembers  Calvary  : 
Nor  let  his  saints  forget." 


^^  \  "^-^  ^'^y  spake  against  the  God  of 
JTa.  Jerusalem  as  against  the  gods  of  the 
people  of  the  earth  which  were  the  work  of 
the  hands  of  men."  Childlike  indignation  and 
reasoning  at  the  affront  put  upon  the  Most 
High. 


"  IV  T^^  t^®  ™^2.n  out  of  whom  the  devils 
X  ^  were  departed,  besought  him  that  he 
might  be  with  him."  O  that  we  might  thus 
cling  to  Jesus !  How  safe  at  his  side !  Nor 
will  "  Satan  dare  my  soul  invade." 


76  BROADCAST. 

^  1  j  EC AUSE  he  could  swear  by  no  greater, 
mJ  he  sware  by  himself,"  —  as  though  He 
would  if  He  could.  And  all  this  effort  of 
protestation  to  confirm  this  promise  to  a  be- 
liever, — "  Surely,  blessing  I  will  bless  thee, 
and  multiplying  I  will  multiply  thee." 


^  1  AOTH  not  he  see  my  ways,  and  count 
JL/  all  my  steps  ?  "  Sometimes  how  good 
it  is  to  think  of  this.  As  though  no  one  else 
engaged  his  attention,  God  has  constant  and 
perfect  cognizance  of  each  of  us. 


OBSERVE  this  change  :  "  In  me,  that 
is,  in  my  flesh,  dwelleth  no  good  thing." 
Now  the  man  who  said  this  was  once  the 
straitest  of  the  Pharisees.  Self-knowledge  is  a 
beautiful  and  wonderful  fruit  of  regeneration. 


BROADCAST. 


77 


T 


HAT  ye  may  grow  thereby.''  What 
is  a  growing  Christian  ?  He  brings 
his  feelings  and  conduct  more  and  more  to  a 
Hkeness  with  those  of  Christ.  He  strengthens 
that  in  himself  which  is  weak,  he  puts  on 
certain  things  which  he  has  not,  his  aim  is 
increasingly  to  be  like  God.  He  loves  the 
preceptive  parts  of  Scripture.  Anything  which 
helps  him  to  know  himself,  to  increase  in 
goodness,  is  the  object  of  his  desire. 


IT  is  doubtful  if  we  feel  anything  very 
deeply  about  which  we  do  not  speak  to 
others,  unless  it  be  unsuitable  ;  and  of  such 
things  there  are  very  few  which  we  do  not 
find  some  one  to  whom  we  may  communicate 
them.  So  if  we  feel  much  on  religious  sub- 
jects, we  shall  be  ready  to  talk  about  them. 
"  I  believed,  therefore  have  I  spoken ;  we  also 
believe,  and  therefore  speak." 


78  BROADCAST. 

«T  PRAY  for  them;  I  pray  not  for  the 
X  world,  but  for  those  whom  thou  hast 
given  me."  There  is  a  sense  in  which  Christ 
intercedes  for  his  people  as  he  does  not  for 
the  world.  He  must  have  died  for  his  people 
with  different  feelings  from  those  which  he  had 
toward  others.  Christians  do  not  sufficiently 
think  of  this.  It  would  increase  their  sense  of 
obligation  to  Christ,  and  awaken  confidence 
and  love  toward  him,  to  admit  this  truth. 
"  Particular  redemption,"  as  some  state  it,  is 
not  true ;  yet  redemption  is  particular. 


HERE  is  demonstration  that  the  Old  Tes- 
tament dispensation  was  preparatory  to 
the  New,  instead  of  the  New  being  an  entirely 
original  institution :  "I  sent  you  to  reap  that 
whereon  ye  bestowed  no  labor;  other  men  la- 
bored, and  ye  are  entered  iato  their  labors." 
Who  were  these  "  other  men,"  if  not  the 
Old  Testament  prophets? 


BROADCAST.  79 

THE  expostulations  of  God  (for  example, 
in  Amos  iv.)  show  his  sincere  good- 
will toward  all  men.  Whatever  is  true  as 
to  his  secret  purposes,  it  is  equally  true  that 
he  is  sincere  in  his  invitations  and  promises. 
These  are  our  rule  of  duty,  not  his  decrees. 


THAT  the  moral  superiority  of  all  Chris- 
tians over  the  heathen  is  not  equal  to 
their  intellectual  and  social  superiority,  is  a 
proof  of  the  irreparable  debasement  of  human 
nature.  Very  many,  also,  are  far  better  as 
men  and  women  than  they  are  as  Christians. 


THE  prosperity  of  King  Uzziah  is  a  won- 
derful story,  2  Chron.  xxvi.  The  causes 
which  led  to  it,  by  the  favor  of  God,  axe  full 
of  admonition  and  encouragement. 


80  BROADCAST, 

SOME  professors  of  religion  seem  to  subsist 
on  the  phenomena  of  religion.  There 
must  be  something  unusual  astir  to  satisfy  them 
that  anything  is  doing.  The  Gospel  is  preached, 
the  lives  of  men  are  affected  by  it,  children  are 
taught,  cases  of  conviction  and  conversion  ripen 
into  confirmed  hope,  one  by  one,  but  these 
Christians  must  have  something  new.  Sun, 
moon,  and  stars  are  of  no  account ;  the  comet 
is  all  in  all.  Eyes  are  turned  toward  it  which 
never  regard  the  sunrise  nor  sunset.  These 
Christians  are  generally  less  spiritually-minded 
than  others,  judging  from  their  prayers. 


INTELLIGENT  men  come  from  their  pur- 
suits of  ingenuity  and  industry,  and  sit 
and  witness  the  manner  in  which  ministers  do 
their  work.  With  all  the  acquisitions  which 
they  can  make  of  piety  and  zeal,  the  ministry 
must  also  remember  that  word  to  one  of  their 
number,  "  Let  no  man  despise  thee." 


BROADCAST.  81 

"  ^  I  AHE  seed  of  evil-doers  shall  never  be 
JL  renowned."  Here  we  have  that  fear- 
ful law  of  God's  administration  which  connects 
parent  and  child  through  the  moral  character 
of  the  parent.  The  associations  which  men 
have  with  the  memory  of  an  evil-doer  invol- 
untarily attach  to  his  child,  even  where  there 
is  no  prejudice  against  the  child.  Thus  God 
would  bring  the  strongest  motives  to  bear  on 
a  parent,  seeing  that  he  depends  so  much  for 
the  right  ordering  of  human  affairs  on  the 
transmitted  influence  of  family  religion. 


"  A  ND  in  the  daytime  he  was  teaching  in 
-ZTX  the  temple,  and  at  night  he  went  out 
and  abode  in  the  mount  that  is  called  the 
Mount  of  Olives."  Here  was  the  mixing  of 
retirement  and  meditation  with  public  service. 
Continued,  uninterrupted  reflection  and  musing 
for  a  season,  and  that  frequently,  nurtures 
thought,  and  gives  it  strength  and  freshness. 

4*  V 


82  BROADCAST. 

THAT  the  only  sin  which  is  unpardon- 
able is  one  committed  against  the  Holy 
Spirit,  should  aflfect  us  with  profound  awe 
toward  him.  While  words  are  necessary  in 
order  to  commit  that  sin,  and  while  no  one 
who  has  a  trembling  fear  lest  he  may  have 
committed  it  can  possibly  have  done  so,  it 
must  follow,  from  what  is  said  of  the  unpar- 
donable sin,  that  all  sins  against  the  Holy 
Spirit  are  peculiarly  heinous. 


DANIEL'S  advice  to  Nebuchadnezzar  de- 
serves to  be  pondered  :  "  Wherefore,  O 
king,  let  my  counsel  be  acceptable  unto  thee, 
and  break  off  thy  sins  by  righteousness,  and 
thine  iniquities  by  showing  mercy  to  the  poor." 
That  which  was  good  for  the  king  is  good 
for  all.  We  do  well  to  notice  the  very  fre- 
quent connection  in  the  Bible  of  alms-giving 
with  being  accepted  of  God. 


BROADCAST.  83 

'^  yi  ND  the  speech  pleased  the  Lord  that 
x\.  Solomon  had  asked  this  thing."  —  God 
is  a  silent  observer  of  our  acts.  Some  of  them 
give  him  as  true  pleasure  as  they  do  to  a 
good  man  who  should  witness  them.  To  please 
God  is  worth  constant  circumspection  and 
effort. 


IT  is  wonderful  how  a  full  acceptance  of 
Christ's  righteousness  by  a  very  wicked 
man  removes  his  sense  of  shame.  Human 
society  could  not  do  it,  even  should  it  heap  its 
honors  upon  him.  But  "  the  blood  of  Jesus 
Christ  his  Son  cleanseth  us  from  all  sin." 


GOD'S  ways  of  treating  us  are,  some  of 
them,  a  rule  and  help  in  our  treatment 
of  others.  For  example,  he  covers  our  sins, 
and  does  not  expose  us ;  is  long-suffering ;  and 
he  is  kind  to  the  unthankfiil. 


84  BROADCAST. 

WE  must  expend  more  labor  on  the 
Church.  Paul  worked  for  it,  wrote, 
prayed  for  it.  It  is  good  soil,  it  yields  returns  ; 
it  furnishes  the  instruments  by  which  God  will 
convert  the  world. 


I 


F  thou  cast  us  out,  suffer  us  to  go  away 


evil  spirits  once  holy  beings  ?  Since  God  may 
not  be  supposed  to  create  demons,  these  evil 
spirits  had  been  upright.  Behold  the  change  I 
What  end  is  there  to  the  degradation  made 
by  sin  ?  When  we  fall  from  God,  the  pit  is 
bottomless  which  receives  us. 


«  yl  ND  men  for  thy  life."  The  fall  of  one 
ir\.  and  another  in  the  church  and  minis- 
try is  one  means  of  saving  us.  "  And  some 
of  them  of  understanding  shall  fall,  to  try  and 
purify  and  make  them  white." 


BROADCAST.  §5 

^^^TTMIE  old  man."  Old  age  is  honorable, 
JL  but  "  the  old  man "  of  whom  Paul 
speaks  is  an  object  of  aversion.  He  has  the 
disagreeable  peculiarities  of  age  without  its 
beauty  and  honor.  He  is  obstinate,  and  pee- 
vish, and  passionate,  and  unreasonable,  and 
childish,  doting,  irresolute,  and  invincibly  at- 
tached to  his  errors  and  follies,  and  to  his 
sins.  We  each  have  "an  old  man"  in  us. 
With  some  he  is  their  only  nature.  Others 
have  also  in  them  "  the  new  man  which 
after  God  is  created  in  righteousness  and  true 
hohness." 


"  IJ  UT  Hezekiah  rendered  not  again  ac- 
XJ  cording  to  the  benefit  done  unto  him, 
for  his  heart  was  hfted  up."  We  blame  him, 
we  wonder  at  him,  we  mourn  over  him,  and 
perhaps  go  and  do  likewise.  Let  us  recall 
past  benefits,  dwell  upon  them  before  God, 
rehearse  his  goodness,  be  as  grateful  as  though 
these  benefits  were  firesh  and  new. 


86  BROADCAST. 

*  A  ND  the  King  of  Sodom  said  to  Abram, 
jljL  '  Give  me  tlie  persons,  and  take  the 
goods  to  thyself.' "  This  is  also  Satan's  wish 
and  proposal.  He  will  give  us  "  the  goods," 
provided  he  may  have  "  the  persons." 


THE  Bible  is  beautifully  miscellaneous, 
Hke  the  woods.  No  methodized,  syn- 
tactic, prim  order,  and  borders.  Every  part 
is  perfect,  but  the  connection  of  the  parts  has 
all  the  lifeHke  variety  of  nature. 


"fTT^HE  iniquity  of  the  Amorites  is  not 
JL  yet  ftdl."  God  thus  seems  to  keep  a 
measure  near  a  wicked  man,  and  the  man  is 
filling  it.  Hence  his  life  is  prolonged.  So 
said  the  Saviour :  "  Fill  ye  up,  therefore,  the 
measure  of  your  iniquities." 


BROADCAST,  87 

SEEMING  success  is  not  real,  without 
God.  It  may  lead  to  disaster.  "For 
though  ye  had  smitten  the  whole  army  of  the 
Chaldeans  that  fight  against  you,  and  there 
remained  but  wounded  men  among  them,  yet 
they  should  rise  up  every  man  in  his  tent,  and 
bum  this  city  with  fire."  —  So  Mure  and  dis- 
appointment, in  God's  hands,  are  frequently 
doors  to  great  success. 


"/^^  THOU  that  hearest  prayer,  unto  thee 
V^    shall    all    flesh    come " ;  —  for    every 
one,  whatever  his  present  feelings,  will  see  a 
time  when  he  must  pray. 


JOHN  mistook  a  glorified  prophet  for  an 
angel,  Rev.  xxii.  8.  If  departed  friends 
should  reappear  to  us  in  their  heavenly  state, 
we  should  do  the  same. 


88  BROADCAST. 

IF  we  repent,  God  hereafter  makes  our  sins 
change  to  sources  of  blessing.  Judas  nev- 
er can  know  this.  But  if  we  are  saved,  God 
will  make  even  our  sins  turn  to  good  account. 
They  will  widen  our  sympathies  with  the  re- 
deemed, make  us  appreciate  redemption,  qualify 
us  for  service. 


IT  is  the  same  as  though  in  heaven  the  rocks 
were  rending,  the  sun  were  darkened,  the 
graves  were  opened,  the  Son  of  God  were  dy- 
ing, rising  again.  The  atonement  is  having 
effect.     Christ  is  making  intercession  for  us. 


NOTICE  the  coincidence  between  Cor- 
neUus's  and  Peter's  visions.  They  had 
the  same  object,  —  to  bring  the  two  men  to- 
gether. So  God  is  at  work  for  us  in  different 
places  at  the  same  time.  "  How  precious,  also, 
are  thy  thoughts  unto  me,  O  God." 


BROADCAST.  89 

EVERY  Communion  Sabbath  the  same  re- 
proach may  be  laid  against  the  Saviour 
at  his  table,  as  when  he  was  on  earth,  —  "  This 
man  receiveth  sinners,  and  eateth  with  them." 
But  are  they  who  now  utter  this  reproach 
Pharisees,  as  formerly? 


"  TJE  that  made  him  can  make  his  sword 
J-  J.  to  approach  unto  him."  These  words, 
spoken  of  Behemoth,  we  may  apply  to  a  seem- 
ingly incorrigible  sinner,  to  a  cruel  enemy,  to 
an  unfeehng  creditor,  to  an  unnatural  relative. 


THE  book  of  the  Law  was  sprinkled  with 
blood,  showing  two  things  ;  —  1.  God's 
justice  is  satisfied  by  the  atonement;  2.  Our 
obedience  is  accepted  only  through  the  sacrifice 
of  Christ. 


90  BROADCAST. 

HOW  little  do  we  feel  that  we  have  been 
pardoned.  We  rather  feel  that  once 
we  were  unhappy,  and  now  have  hope.  But 
we  are  released  convicts,  escaped  criminals, 
ransomed  captives,  who  had  sold  themselves. 
Should  we  sin  so  easily,  if  we  remembered 
that  we  have  had  a  just,  eternal  punishment 
remitted  ? 


"  TT^OR  they  cannot  recompense  thee."  On 
JL  doing  good  for  its  own  sake,  selecting 
cases  where  it  seems  impossible  that  we  should 
get  any  returns  for  it  in  this  world.  Yet  how 
rare  that  a  good  deed  is  not  discovered.  "  But 
thou  shalt  be  recompensed  at  the  resurrection 
of  the  just."  We  are  tempted  to  say,  Would 
that  we  might  be  allowed  to  do  some  good 
without  being  recompensed.  Yet  we  must  be. 
It  is  a  law  of  the  moral  universe.  It  cannot 
be  prevented,  for  those  helpless  ones  whom  we 
benefit  here  will  blazon  it  in  heaven.  And 
what  can  we  do? 


BROADCAST.  91 

*^rTrMIIS  is  the  message  which  we  have 
JL  heard  of  Him,"  —  but  what  can  it 
be,  announced  with  such  emphasis  ?  Sim- 
ply this,  — "  that  God  is  light,  and  in  him 
is  no  darKness  at  all."  It  seems,  at  first, 
almost  a  truism;  but  reflect,  and  ponder  it. 
Things  seem  dark  to  us,  but  not  to  Him. 
Were  there  no  darkness  in  us,  there  would 
be  no  unbeHef,  no  jealousies,  hatred,  no  se- 
cret sins. 


THERE  surely  is  that  in  God  which  in 
man  we  should  call  Humility;  as,  for 
example,  in  his  being  willing  to  institute  a 
comparison  between  himself  and  idols.  We 
can  hardly  speak  of  them  and  of  him  together 
without  some  sense  of  impropriety.  But  the 
Most  High  frequently  enters  into  an  argument 
with  Israel  as  to  his  superiority  to  blocks  of 
wood  and  stone. 


92  BROADCAST, 

HAM  AN  and  the  horse,  —  this  almost 
silly  choice  among  offered  royal  gifts. 
He  verifies  that  common  name  of  a  sinner  in 
the  Bible,  —  fool.  Perhaps  when  every  sinner 
and  his  choice  are  made  pubHc,  the  term  will 
be  seen  to  be  equally  just.  Some  young  men 
will  do  well  to  think  of  this,  especially  in 
their  Sabbath  recreations. 


"  /k  ND  now  men  see  not  the  bright  light 
JTm.  which  is  in  the  clouds  ;  but  the  wind 
passeth  and  cleanseth  them  "  ;  —  that  is,  Afflict- 
ive dispensations  are  inwardly  bright,  and  are 
easily  removed  by  a  word  from  God. 


TRUTHFULNESS  must  pervade  the 
whole    character.     "Behold,    thou    de- 
sirest  truth  in   the   inward  parts." 


BROADCAST.  93 

TAKE  a  cheerful  view  of  these  words : 
"  Let  your  moderation  be  known  uilto 
all  men;  the  Lord  is  at  hand."  Not  merely 
coming  to  judgment ;  but,  at  hand  to  help,  to 
avenge  you ;  hence  be  not  disquieted ;  mod- 
erate your  resentments,  your  fears,  your  de- 
spondency. 


^^  TT  may  be  God  will  requite  me  good  for 
X  his  cursing."  We  take  part  with  an 
injured  person,  and  the  weaker  side.  God 
acts  on  every  good  principle  which  prevails 
among  men. 


"  \  ^"^  ^^  ^^^®  ^^^  Aaron  and  Moses." 
jr\.  What  a  father  and  mother !  Why  were 
two  such  sons  conferred  on  one  family !  God 
is  sometimes  affluent  in  gifts  of  one  and  the 
same  kind.  He  is  "  able  to  do  exceeding 
abundantly  above  all  that  we  ask  or  think." 


94  BROADCAST. 

"  A  ^-^  being  in  an  agony,  he  prayed  more 
ir\.  earnestly";  "And  he  said,  Abba,  Fa- 
ther.'* —  Agony  made  him  more  filial,  more 
loving,  more  conscious  of  the  Father's  relation 
to  him. 


THINK  of  Christ  as  having  common, 
practical  views  of  things  ;  not  as  a 
sentimentalist  and  pietist.  He  cannot  be  de- 
ceived, nor  be  satisfied  with  our  frames  and 
professions,  when  our  principles  and  conduct 
are  not  good. 


WE  are  apt  to  think  and  speak  of  good 
men  in  the  Bible  as  though  they  were 
not  sinners  like  us  ;  whereas  they  had  the 
same  firailties  ;  and  their  confessions  of  sin 
exceed  ours.  We  know  their  evil  deeds,  but 
suppose  that  the  private  histories  of  those  who 
speak  against  them  were  known. 


BROADCAST.  95 

CHRIST'S  reply  to  one  who  invoked  a 
blessing  on  his  mother,  shows  that  there 
is  no  prescriptive  claim  to  eminence  in  his 
kingdom,  not  even  by  being  mother  to  Jesus. 
Goodness  alone  opens  the  way,  and  that  is 
sure,  and  is  in  no  danger  of  being  superseded, 
or  turned  aside  by  accident  of  birth. 


A  DEAR  Christian  friend  said  to  me,  "I 
never  overhear  one  praying  without 
feeling  impelled  to  pray  for  him,  that  his 
prayer  may  be  answered."  Blessed  Inter- 
cessor and  Advocate  I  this  is  the  case  with 
Thee,  whenever  our  voice  in  prayer  reaches 
thine   ear. 


«QURELY  he  hath  borne  our  griefs."  — 
k3    Christ  saw  this  trouble  before  I  felt  it. 
His  heart  was  pierced  by  it  before  it  pierced 
mine. 


96  BROADCAST. 

JOB'S  scorn  (ch.  xxx.).  Paul  and  Silas's 
spirited  reply  to  the  rulers  who  had  im- 
prisoned them.  John's  detestation  of  heretics. 
Jude's  denunciation  of  false  teachers,  and  his 
description  of  their  end.  —  But  it  is  easier  to 
imitate  these  right  things  in  good  men,  than 
their  humility  and  meekness. 


ANGELS  met  Jacob,  not  at  the  moment 
of  need,  but  to  prepare  him  for  it. 
Our  rehgious  opportunities,  in  times  of  health 
and  strength,  are  like  these  angels.  Let  us 
know  the  day  of  our  visitation. 


WHEN  baffled  in  our  meditations  upon 
the  being  of  God,  it  is  good  to  know 
that  it  was  a  truly  devout  man  who  said, 
"  Touching  the  Almighty,  we  cannot  find 
him  out." 


BROADCAST.  97 

THE  first  ear  of  corn,  bunch  of  grapes, 
and  early  fruit-  of  any  kind,  awakens  a 
strange  delight.  "  That  we  should  be  a  kind 
of  first-fruits  of  his  creatures."  James  i.  18. 
It  looks  as  though  redeemed  men  would  be 
such,  in  the  view  of  other  beings,  owing  to  the 
infinite  cost  at  which  we  have  been  produced  in 
this  most  unpromising  and  once  accursed  field. 


THE  Holy  Spirit  looked  down  through 
time  to  this  very  morning,  and  saw  you 
in  need  of  a  word  to  instruct,  comfort,  or  guide 
you.  He  caused  Jabez,  or  Manasseh,  or  Ho- 
sea,  or  Paul,  to  say  something,  so  many  cen- 
turies ago,  which  should  serve  you  to-day.  So 
of  every  Christian,  through  time. 


I 


N  Christ,  we  are  as  safe  at  the  bar  of  God 
as  Christ  would  be. 


98  BROADCAST. 

THE  place  and  use  of  Fear  in  religion.  — 
It  is  a  rebuke  to  those  who  make  fond- 
ness the  principal  element  in  piety,  that  the 
chief  exponent  of  religion  is  "  the  fear  of  the 
Lord."  One  whose  piety  is  in  danger  of  being 
too  soft  and  flaccid  will  do  well  to  read  Cru- 
den's  Concordance,  under  the  word  Fear^  and 
its  various  connected  uses. 


THINKING  of  dying,  it  seems  unspeak- 
ably desirable  to  have  begun  in  child- 
hood to  fear  and  serve  the  glorious  Lord  God. 
"Remember  now  thy  Creator,  in  the  days  of 
thy  youth." 


FOLLOW  peace  with  all  men,  and  holi- 
ness," &c.  Is  a  connection  intimated 
here  between  these  things  ?  Surely  one  is  a 
means  to  the  other,  and  indispensable  to  it. 


BROADCAST. 


99 


T 


IHEY  came  to  the  iron  gate,  which 
opened  to  them  of  his  own  accord." 
Beautiful  fiction,  as  though  a  celestial  hand 
were  not  moving  it.  And  yet,  things  being 
described  in  the  Bible  as  they  appear,  it  is 
strictly  true.  So  do  inflexible  circumstances 
change,  and  insuperable  hinderances  move  out 
of  the  way,  when  God  is  at  work  for  us. 


GREAT  and  awftil  judgments  were  in- 
flicted at  the  opening  of  the  Gospel,  on 
Ananias  and  Sapphira,  Elymas,  &c.,  with  a 
view,  no  doubt,  to  give  the  impression  that 
the  Gospel  was  not  intended  as  a  truce  to  sin. 


I 


WILL  be  a  God  to  thee."     What  must 
this  be  ?     He  is  not  a  Crod  to  the  wicked, 
any  more  than  lightning  is  nature. 


100  BROADCAST. 

^  IVT^W,  therefore,  put  away  Ashtaroth," 
1.  ^  &c.  Some  favored  sin  is  the  cause 
of  every  departure  from  God,  and  lies  at  the 
foundation  of  an  impenitent  state.  In  every 
case  of  impenitence,  the  renunciation  of  some 
particular  sin  would  powerfully  help  toward 
regeneration. 


INSTEAD  of  David  being  peculiar  in  the 
use  of  imprecations,  as  we  might  be  led 
to  suppose  from  common  remarks  about  him, 
what  sacred  writer  does  not  use  them,  or 
quote  them  ? 


ISRAEL  could  not  drive  out  the  inhabitants 
of  the  plain  (Judges  i.)  because  they  had 
"  chariots  of  iron."  Yet  God  was  with  Judah. 
True,  but  He  would  not  always  work  miracles. 
Here  is  an  instance  of  Divine  power  regarding 
the  natural  force  of  circumstances. 


BROADCAST.  101 

WHY  was  Paul  translated?  Did  Christ 
long  to  have  him  with  him  in  heaven, 
and  so  anticipate  his  decease?  Did  Paul  need 
it  to  confirm  his  faith,  and  so  to  insure  him,  by 
the  help  of  means,  which  God  always  honors, 
against  apostasy  ?  Was  it  needful  to  place  this 
buttress  against  the  great  Apostle's  faith  in  the 
Gospel  and  his  confidence  in  Christ  under  his 
unparalleled  trials? 


GOD  is  often  called  "  a  Rock,"  and  "  my 
Rock,"  by  David,  no  doubt  because  he 
had  had  such  experience  of  Rocks  for  refuge 
and  defence.  He  does  not  mean  a  block  of 
stone,  but  a  natural  fortress. 


H 


OW  do  "others,  which  have  no  hope,' 
"  sorrow  "  ? 


102  BROADCAST. 

^  ^  I  ^HOU  hast  bought  me  no  sweet  cane 
A  with  money."  Sweet  cane,  of  course, 
is  nothing  to  God.  How  condescendmg  in 
Him  to  specify  such  a  thing,  intimating  its 
acceptableness  as  a  token  of  our  love.  Hence, 
whatever  offering  we  consecrate  to  him,  he 
recognizes  it  ;  and  he  misses  our  gifts  if  we 
bring  him  nothing. 


THE  prophet  Zechariah's  two  staves  with 
which  he  fed  the  flock  were  named  by 
him  "  Beauty  and  Bands,"  teaching  us  that, 
while  enforcing  obligation,  reproving,  rebuking, 
and  exhorting,  (all  which  is  "Bands,")  we 
must  have  love,  and  goodness,  and  consistency, 
and  due  ornament  and  grace,  be  tasteful  and 
not  rough,  complaisant  and  not  rude,  adapt 
ourselves  to  the  sensibilities  of  man  as  well  as 
to  his  understanding  and  conscience.  All  this 
is  Beauty.  "With  these,"  said  he,  "I  fed 
the   flock." 


BROADCAST. 


103 


THE  connection  between  secret  prayer 
and  the  right  kind  of  popularity:  — 
"And  in  the  morning,  rising  up  a  great 
while  before  day,  he  went  out  and  departed 
into  a  solitary  place,  and  there  prayed.  And 
Simon  and  they  that  were  with  him  followed 
after  him.  And  when  they  had  found  him, 
they  said  unto  him,  All  men  seek  for  thee." 
—  While  you  are  praying,  God  may  be  at 
work  for  you  even  in  distant  parts  of  the 
earth,  or  near  at  hand,  preparing  events  and 
the  hearts  of  men  for  your  good,  and  for  your 
greater  usefulness ;  and  will  "  reward  thee 
openly," 


THE  purpose  of  Christ  to  keep  and  save 
every  soul  intrusted  to  him,  breaks  out 
even  in  the  incidental  danger  of  his  disciples 
at  his  arrest :  "  If  ye  seek  me,  let  these  go 
their  way ;  —  that  the  saying  might  be  fulfilled, 
"  Of  all  which  thou  gavest  me,  I  have  lost 
none." 


104  BROADCAST. 

^  A  ND  he  was  there  when  Jerusalem  was 
Xx  taken  "  ;  —  that  weeping  prophet  who 
had  expostulated,  and  stood  in  the  breach  to 
turn  away  the  people  from  ruin,  —  he  was 
there  when  the  ruin  came.  So  faithful  minis- 
ters of  Christ  will  be  present  when  the  final 
ruin  which  they  have  depicted  comes  upon 
some  of  their  hearers.  It  was  hard  for  Jeru- 
salem to  look  on  Jeremiah  as  she  fell  before 
the  enemy. 


THERE  are  hinderances  to  conversion. 
Unfaithfulness  in  secular  things  is  named 
as  one,  in  Luke  xvi.  11.  "  If  ye  have  not 
been  faithful  in  the  unrighteous  mammon,  who 
shall  commit  to  your  trust  the  true  riches?" 
We  wonder  at  the  continued  ill-success  of 
preaching  in  certain  cases.  There  is  in  each 
of  these  cases  a  secret  cause  which  nullifies 
the  effect  of  our  labors,  and  that  cause  is  some 
form  of  sin,  obstinate  rebellion  against  known 
duty,  cleaving  to  some  idol. 


BROADCAST. 


105 


I 


ON  having  an  adversary,  Ps.  cix.  6.  God 
can  raise  us  up  one,  who  will  never 
hear  or  see  our  name  but  with  implacable 
hatred.  "We  should  avoid  this.  No  one 
should  be  defied.  Yet  he  may  be  a  blessing 
in  disguise,  to  make  us  watchful  over  our 
words  and  conduct,  "lest  mine  enemy  rejoice 
over  me,  and  they  that  hate  me  be  glad 
when  I  am  moved."  —  Let  no  one  of  us  be 
an  adversary  to  any  one.  — "  Let  mine  adver- 
sary be  as  the  wicked  "  ;  that  is,  if  I  must  have 
one,  let  him  not  be  a  good  man,  but  a  bad 
man.  Then,  if  we  are  right,  the  end  of  his 
chain  will  be  in  the  hand  of  Christ. 


SUPPOSE  that  two  thirds  of  our  sun 
should  be  constantly  eclipsed.  Health, 
the  arts,  vegetation,  life,  would  suffer.  If  we 
do  not  receive  Christ  and  the  Holy  Spirit  as 
revealed  in  the  Bible,  two  thirds  of  the  God- 
head are  eclipsed  to  us. 

^^  OF  THK 


106  BROADCAST. 

A  CERTAIN  joyful  though  humhle  con- 
fidence becomes  us  when  we  pray  in 
the  Mediator's  name.  It  is  due  to  him ;  when 
we  pray  in  his  name  it  should  be  "without 
wavering."  Remember  his  merits,  and  how 
prevalent  they  must  be.  "Let  us  therefore 
come  boldly  unto  the  throne  of  grace." 
"Having,  therefore,  brethren,  boldness  to  en- 
ter into  the  holiest  by  the  blood  of  Jesus, — 
let  us  draw  near." 


THE  Holy  Spirit  is  as  distinctively  the 
author  of  the  Bible,  as  Christ  is  iden- 
tified with  the  Cross.  Let  us  think  of  the 
Book  as  his  design  and  production,  framed  as 
his  instrument  in  his  official  work.  He  made 
the  Psalms,  and  the  books  of  Esther  and 
Ruth,  and  the  Proverbs,  and  every  book  of 
the  canon,  to  answer  particular  purposes,  and 
all  to  make  up  a  volume  sufficient  for  every 
object  which  he  ever  meant  to  accomplish. 


J 


BROADCAST. 


107 


PERHAPS  the  inhabitants  ot  this  world 
are  the  only  fallen  race  except  fallen 
angels.  If  so,  see  the  infinite  importance  of 
everything  relating  to  this  world.  How  sol- 
emn to  Hve  here,  to  be  one  of  this  race,  to 
exert  an  influence  upon  it,  to  be  an  ambassador 
for  Christ. 


ON  sinning  against  the  Preserver  of  men, 
—  the  God  who  has  given  us  so 
many  happy  returns,  preserved  us  in  long 
journeys  and  voyages,  as  well  as  in  great 
snares  of  temptation.  "  I  have  sinned,  what 
shall  I  do  unto  thee,  O  thou  Preserver  of 
men?" 


SCRIPTURAL   way   to    prosperity:    "By 
humihty  and  the   fear   of  the   Lord   are 
riches,  and  honor,  and  Ufe." 


108  BROADCAST. 

NAOMI'S  telling  her  daughters-in-law  to 
return  from  her,  is  like  giving  inquirers 
and  young  Christians  fair  notice  of  all  which 
they  will  lose  by  following  Christ.  Let  them 
count  the  cost.  So  the  Saviour  advised. 
"  Lord,  I  will  follow  thee."  "  Foxes  have 
holes,  and  the  birds  of  the  air  have  nests, 
but  the  Son  of  man  hath  not  where  to  lay 
his  head." 


THE  Holy  Ghost  selects  ministers.  And 
the  Holy  Ghost  said,  "  Separate  me 
Barnabas  and  Saul  for  the  work  whereunto 
I  have  appointed  them."  Vacant  churches, 
remember  this. 


CHRIST  "marvelled  at  their  unbelief;" 
We  give  him  occasion  to  do  so.  He 
must  greatly  love  and  honor  faith.  We  must 
not  depend  on  frames  of  mind,  but  walk  by 
faith. 


BROADCAST. 


109 


EVEN  when  the  Mediatorship  is  ended, 
the  enlightening  and  guiding  influences 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  which  are  not  in  their 
nature  temporary,  but  belong  to  his  Divine 
nature,  will  no  doubt  be  employed  for  the 
advancement  of  redeemed  souls  in  knowledge 
forever.  And  so  that  gratitude,  which  now 
we  owe  him  for  every  good  thought  and  right 
feeling,  will  swell  to  a  boundless  debt,  till  our 
love  toward  him  may  not  be  exceeded  even 
by  our  love  to  the  Redeemer.  Notice  a  word 
used  by  Paul  in  connection  with  the  Holy 
Spirit,  and  also  the  recognition  of  the  Sacred 
Three  in  one  verse :  "  Now  I  beseech  you  for 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ's  sake,  and  for  the  love 
of  the  Spirit,  that  ye  strive  together  in  your 
prayers  to  God  for  me." 


BALAAM,   Gehazi,  Judas,  Ananias,  were 
not  recovered,  while  others  were.     What 
was  the  one  sin  of  those  men  ?     Covetousness. 


110  BROADCAST. 

A  SHORT  crop  in  this  country  deranges 
the  finances.  No  country  is  more  im- 
mediately dependent  on  God  than  we.  But 
what  a  responsibility  it  is  to  take  charge  of 
suns,  and  showers,  and  winds,  day  by  day 
and  at  the  same  time  to  rule  the  cabinets, 
and  plan  for  you  and  make  your  little  child 
well  of  fever,  and  hear  yoiy  prayers  and  put 
your  tears  into  his  bottle.  What  a  God ! 
who  would  sin  against  Him?  "O  that  men 
would  praise  the  Lord  for  his  goodness,  and 
for  his  wonderful  works  to  the  children  of 
men  I" 


HOW  free  the  Israelites  were  with  their 
offerings  when  a  false  god  was  to  be 
made  I  So  men  are  free  and  lavish  in  their 
amusements,  their  pleasures,  their  dress,  dwell- 
ings, and  equipage,  and  backward  in  the  cause 
of  Christian  benevolence,  until  their  love  to 
God  reaches  the  same  level  with  their  former 
love  of  self. 


BROADCAST.  HI 

HAD  not  the  translators  left  some  pas- 
sages obscure,  and  perhaps  equivocal, 
each  sect  would  have  had  its  Bible.  Now  all 
can  put  their  own  interpretation  on  those  places. 
The  Bible  is  thus  like  a  portrait,  which  seems 
to  every  one  in  the  room  to  be  looking  specially 
at  him. 


THE  last  words  of  God  on  Sinai  to 
Moses  (Exodus  xxxi.)  had  reference  to 
the  observance  of  the  Sabbath.  After  a  long 
interview,  and  when  we  have  given  instruc- 
tions to  one  who  is  to  serve  us,  the  thing 
which  we  dwell  upon  just  at  parting,  repeating 
it  with  special  emphasis,  is  a  thing  to  which 
we  attach  great  importance. 


TH  E    world  "    has    no    "  Comforter. 
(John  xiv.  17.) 


112  BROADCAST. 

"  I  j^OR  he  seeth  wickedness  also ;  will  he 
A.  not  then  consider  it  ? "  We  meditate 
and  dwell  on  a  base  act,  analyze  it,  and  con- 
stantly abhor  it.  What  if  God  thus  dwells 
upon  our  acts  of  evil-doing?  Sometimes  he 
makes  us  feel  that  he  does  so.  Thus  David : 
"  Thou  hast  set  our  iniquities  before  thee,  our 
secret  sins  in  the  light  of  thy  countenance." 


NO  one,  probably,  was  ever  disappointed 
at  finding  himself  in  heaven.  Many 
have  been  and  will  be  disappointed  in  not 
finding  themselves  there. 


WHAT  constitutes  covetousness  ?  We 
need  to  know ;  for  is  there  more  said 
against  any  one  sin,  or  said  in  stronger  terms, 
in  the  New  Testament,  than  against  this? 


BROADCAST.  113 

"  \  ^^  ^^  *°^^  ^^  *^^  stones  of  the  place 
jL\.  and  set  them  up  for  his  pillow,  and 
lay  down  in  that  place  to  sleep."  So  we 
may  do  everywhere  and  always,  —  the  cir- 
cumstances of  every  condition,  no  matter 
how  unforbidding  and  repulsive,  affording  us 
always,  if  we  will,  a  source  of  rest  and  con- 
solation. 


HERE  I  am  on  the  shore  of  the  sea. 
What  if  the  sea  were  veiled,  and  I 
had  never  beheld  it,  and  yet  had  often  walked 
on  its  coasts.  So  the  invisible  world,  and  that 
"  ocean  we  must  sail  so  soon,"  lie  close  at 
hand,  concealed. 


MARK,  writing  under  directions  from 
Peter,  omits  to  praise  him  as  the 
other  Evangelists  indirectly  do;  but  he  gives 
his  faults  most   fully. 


114  BROADCAST. 

AFTER  talking  with  one  who  was  anx- 
ious about  his  spiritual  state,  but  with 
no  fixed  behef  of  anything,  and  seemingly  in- 
capable of  coherent  views  of  things,  I  have 
been  instructed  by  seeing  men  drive  piles 
into  a  loose  soil.  The  object  is  to  get  one 
pile  at  a  time  firmly  fixed.  So  we  should 
aim  to  fix  some  one  truth  in  the  mind,  and 
it  is  comparatively  of  little  consequence  what 
the  truth  is,  the  object  being  simply  to  ex- 
cite faith. 


ONE  great  error  of  the  Perfectionists  is 
this  :  They  expect  to  get  into  a  state,  — 
a  state  in  which  they  will  not  sin.  One  was 
probably  saved  from  that  delusion  by  asking 
her,  one  wintry  day,  if  she  ever  expected  to 
get  into  a  state  of  not  slipping  on  the  ice  ?  — 
The  Christian  life  is  a  slippery  way  up  to  the 
very  gate  of  the  heavenly  city,  and  even  while 
entering.  "  Hold  thou  me  up,  and  I  shall 
be  safe.*' 


BROADCAST.  115 

<<  1%  /f  Y  covenant  was  with  him  (Levi)  of 
iVl  life  and  peace."  Mai.  ii.  5.  God's 
covenant  with  ministers.  When  they  are  right 
and  good,  thej  must  be  a  great  joy  to  Him 
who  chooses  to  work  by  instruments,  and  "  has 
need "  of  these  laborers,  "  workers  together 
with  God."     They  may  expect  covenant  bless- 


TAKE  salvation  as  freely  as  you  would 
buy  it,  if  you  had  the  means,  or  as  you 
would  buy  any  worldly  commodity.  "  Ho 
every  one  that  thirsteth,  —  and  he  that  hath  no 
money,  —  come  ye,  —  buy, — without  money." 


PERFECTNESS  under  an  administration 
of  grace  is  consistent  with  indwelling 
sin,  strong  temptations,  lapses,  in  short,  with 
being  imperfect,  the  individual  being  sincerely 
a  follower  of  Christ. 


116  BROADCAST. 

JOAB  directed  his  main  attack  against  the 
auxiliar  force,  1  Chron.  xix.  This  was 
good  generalship.  They  had  no  homes  and 
country  there  to  fight  for,  and  could  be 
more  easily  discomfited,  and  the  effect  of 
routing  them  would  be  to  dismay  the  Syrians. 
The  Bible  is  rich  in  its  incidental  instruc- 
tions. Was  a  man  ever  in  circumstances  to 
which  there  is  nothing  corresponding  in  the 
Bible  ? 


IN  religion,  "  pietism,"  that  is,  frames,  emo- 
tions, meditative  religion,  —  very  beautiful 
often,  but  without  activity,  —  corresponds  to 
that  which  in  painting  is  called  "  still-life." 


WELL    might    the   Saviour    sing  at   the 
Supper,  looking  beyond  those  few  fol- 
lowing days. 


BROADCAST. 


117 


THERE  must  have  been  more  appear- 
ances of  Christ  in  the  Old  Testament 
than  we  usually  find,  judging  from  the  fre- 
quent mention,  in  the  New  Testament,  of  his 
agency  under  the  old  dispensation. 


PAUL  came  to  Troas,  and  found  a  wide 
door  opened  to  him,  but  had  no  rest 
because  he  found  not  Titus  his  brother.  We 
love  him  for  this  touch  of  innocent  weak- 
ness. So  he  beseeches  Timothy  to  do  dili- 
gence, and  come  to  him,  telhng  who  had  for- 
saken him. 


WAS  Paul  ever  "  forsaken "  by  any  ? 
Did  any  leave  his  ministry  for  insuffi- 
cient reasons  ?  We  are  glad  to  know  it,  if  it 
were  so.     (2  Tim.  iv.  10,  16.) 


118  BROADCAST, 

NOTICE  the  unstudied,  but  wonderful 
expressions  about  Christ,  in  the  proph- 
ets and  in  the  New  Testament.  They  drop 
without  system,  are  mostly  incidental,  yet 
each  is  beyond  explanation  unless  Christ  be 
divine,  and  all  together  they  have  that  pecu- 
liar power  which  cumulative  evidence  has  on 
a  jury,  the  weightier  for  being  somewhat  dis- 
joined, and  without  concert. 


REPRESENTATIVE  guilt  and  punish- 
ment appear  in  these  words  :  —  "  That 
on  you  may  come  all  the  righteous  blood  from 
Abel." 


«  T  T  EARKEN,    and    serve    the    King  of 
IJ.     Babylon."     Humiliating    word!     So, 
submit   to  chastisement,   mortifying,   bitter    to 
pride,  if  God  clearly  appoints  it. 


BROADCAST. 


119 


THE  "  three  "  who  appeared  to  Abraham, 
as  he  sat  in  his  tent-door,  we  do  not  sup- 
pose had  designed  reference  to  the  Three  that 
bear  record  in  heaven ;  yet  do  Christians  ever 
have  any  experience  of  communion  with  those 
"  Three  "  together  ?  Why  not  ?  Christ  says, 
"  My  Father  will  love  him,  and  we  will  come 
unto  him,  and  make  our  abode  with  him.*'  O 
never-to-be-forgotten  experience,  if,  in  some 
season  of  great  sorrow  or  trial,  you  had  a  sense 
of  being  visited  by  the  Sacred  Three  I 


GOD  appeals  to  the  mountains  as  judges 
between  him  and  his  people,  Micah  vi. 
Beautiful  condescension  to  our  habits  of 
thought.  He  is  willing  to  leave  the  case  to 
referees.  We  have  very  limited  conceptions 
of  the  gentleness  of  God.  The  passages  which 
bring  it  to  view  are  chiefly  in  the  Old  Testa- 
ment. A  rejoinder,  here,  to  allegations  against 
that  book. 


120  BROADCAST. 

A  COMMON  idea  with  many  of  being 
"  an  excellent  Christian "  is,  to  be  kind 
to  the  poor,  upright,  obliging,  courteous;  — 
leaving  out  of  the  case  a  work  of  God  upon 
the  heart.  But  many  who  have  this  work 
have  all  these  moral  and   social  qualities  also. 


TO  be  baptized  in  the  name  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  to  be  blessed  in  his  name 
in  the  Christian  benediction,  as  really  prove 
his  personahty  and  deity,  as  baptism  and  ben- 
ediction prove  the  personahty  of  the  Father. 


AND  some  beheved  the  words  which 
were  spoken,  and  some  beheved  not." 
Acts  (last  chapter).  It  is  very  much  so 
when  other  ministers  than  Paul  reason  and 
preach.     Let  them  not  be  disheartened. 


I 


BROADCAST.  121 

THE  inspection  of  a  single  bone  will 
sometimes  enable  the  comparative  anat- 
omist to  describe  in  general  the  structure  of 
an  unknown  animal.  There  are  passages  of 
Scripture  having  no  connection  with  any  argu- 
ment for  a  system,  which  reveal  a  system,  or 
some  fundamental  truth.  For  example,  Paul 
says  to  the  Galatians,  "  Was  Paul  crucified 
for  you?"  Here  is  a  recognition,  the  more 
impressive  for  its  being  incidental,  of  the  vica- 
rious sacrifice  of  Christ.  Hero  is  another  in- 
stance :  "  Destroy  not  him  with  thy  meat  for 
Avhom  Christ  died." 


"XT  THEREFORE  askest  thou  after  my 
T  ▼  name,  seeing  it  is  secret  ? "  Con- 
sider the  value  and  beauty  of  privacy  in  re- 
ligion, as  regards  some  experiences  which 
never  can  be  mentioned  without  both  break- 
ing a  certain  charm  in  them  to  ourselves, 
and  incurring  the  suspicion  of  fanaticism,  or 
at  least  presumption. 


122  BROADCAST. 

"  1 1  ^HE  Lord  hath  set  apart  him  that  is 
X.  godly  for  himself."  We  look  with 
interest  upon  the  article  which  the  manufac- 
turer of  some  rare  and  valuable  product,  or 
upon  the  lot  of  land  which  a  land  proprietor, 
has  set  apart  for  himself.  No  godly  person 
escapes  the  eye  of  God.  "  The  Lord's  por- 
tion is  his  people."  "  Israel  is  his  pecuHar 
inheritance." 


TO  be  melancholy  after  confession  and 
repentance  implies  a  want  of  faith  in 
God.  "  Be  of  good  cheer,  thy  sins  are  for- 
given thee." 


REPENTANCE  is  the  sorrow  of  love. 
It  is  doubtful  whether  we  ever  repent 
towards  any  one  till  touched  with  some  gen- 
tle emotion  toward  him.  Is  it  not  so  with 
repentance  toward  God? 


BROADCAST. 


123 


0 


UESTIONING  with  themselves  what 
the  rising  from  the  dead  should  mean.'' 
Reading  the  bold,  clear  arguments  of  the 
Apostles  on  that  subject,  it  is  encouraging  to 
think  of  their  early  ignorance,  and  to  see 
how  the  course  of  events  and  experience  will 
instruct  and  advance  those  who  thirst  for 
Christian  knowledge. 


I 


F  he  were  on  earth,  he  would  not  be  a 
priest."  But  why  ?  —  Because  his  own 
death  and  blood  invested  him  with  the  priestly 
office.  —  Here  we  have  an  indirect  testimony 
to  the  sacrificial  nature  of  our  Saviour's  char- 
acter and  office. 


CHRIST   lay  in   the  grave  the  whole   of 
the  Jewish  Sabbath,  but  the  whole  of 
no  other  day. 


124  BROADCAST. 

**  /"  ■  ^HE  kings  of  the  earth,  and  all  the 
JL  inhabitants  of  the  world,  would  not 
have  believed  that  the  adversary  and  the 
enemy  should  have  entered  into  the  gates  of 
Jerusalem."  Lam.  iv.  12.  So  ministers,  and 
professed  Christians  of  eminent  reputation,  may 
astonish  others  by  their  perdition.  God  will 
show  his  infinite  greatness  by  his  independence 
of  the  greatest  of  men  and  of  angels. 


ON  being  guileless.  "  Behold  an  Israelite 
indeed,  in  whom  is  no  guile."  —  Yet 
Nathaniel  was  only  a  man ;  sinful  man,  there- 
fore, can  secure  such  approbation  from  Christ. 


DANIEL    charged    Belshazzar    with    two 
things  :  1.  Not  improving  by  his  father's 
sins  and  punishment ;    2.   Not  glorifying  God. 


BROADCAST. 


125 


GOD  sees  our  imperfections  more  than  we. 
"  Faithful  are  the  wounds  of  a  friend." 
That  enemy  of  yours  was  employed  by  God 
to  tell  you  a  cutting  but  needful  truth.  Turn 
away  your  resentment,  and  be  grateful  to  God 
for  letting  you  see  yourself.  The  prayer  you 
uttered  a  month  or  two  since,  "  Search  me,  O 
God,  and  know  my  heart,"  has  just  now  been 
answered  in  this  reproach,  this  backbiting,  this 
bitter  enmity. 


WARNINGS  are  ineffectual  in  them- 
selves. We  would  have  supposed  that 
the  fall  of  Judas  would  have  made  the  eleven 
disciples  keep  closer  to  Christ,  instead  of  for- 
saking him,  or  following  afar  off. 


H 


OPELESS   deaths:    "And  Aaron   held 
his  peace." 


126  BROADCAST. 

WE  are  honored  in  having  no  lower 
standard  proposed  to  us  than  perfec- 
tion, God  himself.  "  Be  ye  therefore  perfect, 
even  as  your  Father  in  heaven  is  perfect." 
This  sometimes  excites  querulous  remarks,  as 
though  it  were  severe,  an  impossible  exac- 
tion. But  it  should  be  our  glory  and  joy. 
How  would  we  have  it?  Shall  the  best  of 
men,  or  angels,  be  our  standard  ?  No  ;  God 
is   the  goal   after  which  we   are  to  aspire. 


"TTTHAT  continuance  hath  an  image  in 
T  T  a  glass,  if  the  man  turn  away  his 
face  ? "  So  if  God  withdraw,  what  becomes 
of  his  image  in  our  souls  ?  Angelic  perfection 
is  only  a  creature.  How  far  our  native  cor- 
ruption will  work  if  it  be  irritated,  and  God 
suspends  the  influence  of  his  grace,  we  may 
have  seen  in  the  case  of  others,  but  the  greats 
est  illustration  of  it  we  shall  find  in  our  own 
temptations. 


BROADCAST.  127 

"I^TOT  by  water  only,  but  by  water  and 
X  ^  blood."  We  cannot  be  saved  by 
outward  washings,  reformations,  observances. 
Blood  must  atone  for  our  sins.  We  cannot 
be  saved  merely  by  being  good,  and  we  can- 
not be  saved  without  it.  "  By  water  and 
blood." 


OBLIGATION  is  not  to  be  measured 
by  moral  ability ;  for  then  there  would 
be  as  many  standards  as  there  are  individuals 
and  their  degrees  of  ability.  There  is  one 
standard  for  all,  and  that  is  God.  Our 
moral  impotence  does  not  change  it,  nor  les- 
sen its  obligation. 


"^TTMIE    High-Priest    asked    Jesus    of   his 
A      disciples."      What  an  inquiry  just  at 
that  time,  and  under  those  circumstances. 


128  BROADCAST. 

"  \  ND  God  hath  both  raised  up  the  Lord, 
2.  \.  and  will  also  raise  up  us  by  his  own 
power."  Here  is  identification  of  the  believer 
with  Christ;  a  parallelism  of  our  resurrection 
and  that  stupendous  event,  —  the  resurrection 
of  Christ.  Notice  the  act  of  God,  the  Father, 
in  raising  us  from  the  dead,  while  it  is  also  the 
frequently  asserted  prerogative  of  Christ. 


SUPPOSE  that  Christ  had  stood  for  us 
instead  of  Adam,  as  our  federal  head  ? 
How  safe  we  should  have  been.  He  has  stood 
for  us,  our  second  Adam.  How  safe  we  are 
in  him. 


^    /I   LL  things  were  made  by  him   and  for 
JL  A.    him,"  —  namely,    these    relationships, 
these   affections,   these   talents   and   opportuni- 
ties, as  well  as  those  planetary  worlds. 


BROADCAST.  129 

DO  not  always  dwell  on  "  ability "  in  the 
sinner.  "  Blessed  art  thou,  Simon  Bar- 
jona ;  for  flesh  and  blood  hath  not  revealed  it 
unto  thee,  but  my  Father  which  is  in  heaven." 
Set  men  to  search  and  pray  for  things  which, 
with  all  their  ability,  they  must  receive  as  free 
gifts  to  the  undeserving. 


^^^T^HOU  art  weighed  in  the  balances." 
JL  Our  sins  will  go  into  the  same  side 
of  the  balance  with  the  law  of  God,  to  weigh 
against  us.  But  what  if  Christ  and  his  right- 
eousness be  counted  on  our  part  against  them? 


DANIEL  did  not  call  Belshazzar  to  re- 
pentance, as  he  did  Nebuchadnezzar. 
His  doom  was  fixed.  His  sin  was  unto  death. 
"  I  do  not  say  that  he  shall  pray  for  it." 

6*  I 


130  BROADCAST. 

THE  Saviour  taking  those  three  men  to 
watch  at  the  gate  of  Gethsemane  while 
he  suffered,  teaches  us  the  use  and  the  true 
way  of  showing  sympatliy  to  the  afflicted. 
We  all  crave  it ;  so  did  Christ.  Draw  near 
to  the  afflicted.  It  was  that  wliich  Christ 
desired,  and  not  much  speaking. 


NO  doubt  whole  households  will  here  and 
there  be  seen  in  the  world  of  sin  and 
suffering,  —  father,  mother,  brother,  sister,  hav- 
ing made  that  unprofitable  gain  of  the  world 
for  the  soul,  and  now  losing  both. 


NOAH'S  ark  in  itself  was  a  "  vain  thing 
for  safety."  Putting  to  sea  in  it  in 
such  a  flood  was  safe  only  because  the  cove- 
nant of  God  made  it  so. 


BROADCAST. 


131 


WE  must  not  expect  sorrows  and  suf- 
ferings as  unmitigated  attendants  upon 
growing  old.  To  many  aged  people  we  have 
seen  that  word  fulfilled  in  their  serene  or  even 
joyful  frames  of  mind :  "  And  thine  age  shall 
be  clearer  than  the  noonday." 


OVE  his  appearing."  Wicked  servants 
and  children  do  not  love  the  sudden 
appearing  of  the  master  and  father.  But  to 
love  the  appearing  of  Christ  is  one  character- 
istic, mentioned  in  the  New  Testament,  of 
Christians. 


BOAZ  on  his  sheaves,  his  heart  merry 
with  wine,  and  with  Ruth  at  his  feet, 
unknown  to  him,  is  a  picture  of  happiness 
approaching  one  whom  God  has  designed  to 
bless. 


182  BROADCAST. 

WE  cannot  express  the  direct  and  indi- 
rect help  which  we  have  derived  in 
trouble  from  passages  of  Scripture.  We  think 
in  them,  in  a  large  measure,  —  they  seem  to 
be  the  currency  of  our  minds  at  such  times. 
"  This  is  my  comfort  in  my  affliction,  for  thy 
word  hath  quickened  me." 


CHRIST  atoned  on  Calvary  for  all  those 
sins  which  now  trouble  your  conscience. 
Now  you  endure  some  of  the  consequences 
of  those  sins,  but  the  guilt  of  them  was  atoned 
for.     Go  in  peace,  in  view  of  this. 


SUPPOSE  that  this  and  that  individual, 
whom  we  can  name,  should  meet  us  in 
hell  ?  Let  us  imagine  the  interview,  have  a 
good  conscience  toward  him  now,  and  flee 
from  the  wrath  to  come. 


BROADCAST.  133 

IT  is  noticeable  that,  after  such  striking 
events  as  preceded  Samson's  birth,  his  life 
and  death  should  have  been  so  full  of  painful 
conflict ;  but  he  is  mentioned  with  honor,  in 
Hebrews  xi.,  among  those  who  by  faith  gained 
a  good  report.  If  God  honors  us  or  our  chil- 
dren with  early  signs  of  his  favor,  it  may  be 
that  we  and  they  may  suffer  for  him.  But 
then  we  shall  glorify  him. 


HE  had  risen,  he  had  been  in  heaven, 
he  had  finished  the  work  of  redemp- 
tion, and  yet  this  infinite  Redeemer  meets  a 
company  of  weary  and  hungry  fi'iends  on  the 
sea-shore,  and  having  with  his  own  hands 
kindled  a  fire  and  laid  fish  thereon,  he  says 
to  them,  "  Come  and  dine."  Condescending 
Friend!  no  service  for  us  is  beneath  thee. 
Common  blessings  are  all  thy  gifts.  Thou 
wouldst  wash  the  feet  of  every  friend  of 
thine,  if  it  were  necessary. 


134  BROADCAST. 

SEE  how  they  marked  off  and  parcelled 
out  Canaan,  yet  unconquered.  "  By 
feith  they  subdued  kingdoms."  One  khig  had 
nine  hundred  chariots  of  iron.  What  of  this  ? 
He  too  was  marked  out  for  conquest.  So 
let  us  lay  out  plans  of  usefulness,  seek  the 
conversion  of  individuals,  benefit  classes  of 
people,  attempt  reformations,  notwithstanding 
discouragements  and  opposition,  and  seek  to 
conquer  the  world  for  Christ. 


WE  have  afflicted  God  with  our  sins 
more  than  he  ever  afflicted  us  by 
trials.  "  Thou  hast  wearied  me  with  thine 
iniquities." 


WHEN  tempted,  fall  to  praying,  and  Sa- 
tan, rather  than  do  you  so  much  good, 
will  desist.  Thus  "  resist  the  devil,  and  he 
will  flee  from  you." 


BROADCAST.  135 

CONSIDERING  the  pre-existence  of  fallen 
angels  and  their  history,  the  first  men- 
tion of  them  in  the  Bible  is  beautifully  simple, 
and  in  accordance  with  the  Divine  plan  not  to 
disclose  things  prematurely.  "  Now  the  serpent 
was  more  subtle  than  any  beast  of  the  field 
which  the  Lord  God  had  made,  and  he  said 
unto  the  woman,"  &c.  Had  the  existence  and 
agency  of  fallen  spirits  been  directly  asserted, 
it  would  have  made  explanations  necessary 
which  would  have  been  out  of  place  in  the 
chronology  of  revelation. 


«  \  SLEEP  on  a  pillow."  It  was  a  dehb- 
JLjl  erate  sleep.  He  had  not  sunk  down 
accidentally;  but  though  he  knew  the  storm 
was  coming,  he  took  a  pillow  and  went  to 
sleep.  When  we  have  done  our  duty,  and 
nothing  remains  for  us  to  do,  we  may  safely 
commit  all  to  God,  and  take  our  rest  in 
safety. 


136  BROADCAST. 

IT  would  be  difficult  to  mention  a  class  of 
individuals  to  whom  something  in  the 
Saviour's  life  does  not  apply.  It  is  pleasant 
to  think  that,  by  his  unseen  direction,  the 
thirty  pieces  of  silver  for  which  he  was  be- 
trayed were  appropriated  to  buy  a  strangers' 
burying-place.  O  ye  who  wander  over  the 
earth  feehng  homeless  and  desolate,  consider 
that  Jesus  thought  of  the  stranger  and  the 
homeless,  and  identified  them  with  one  of 
the  intensely  interesting  events  connected  with 
his  sufferings  and  death.  One  of  his  specifi- 
cations to  the  righteous  in  his  approval  of 
them  at  the  final  judgment  is,  "For  I  was 
a  stranger  and  ye  took  me  in." 


H 


E   is   able  to   subdue   all    things  unto 


religion,  that  opposition,  all  this  wealth  and 
talent,  this  whole  population.  Therefore  pray, 
labor,  wait,  and  do  not  "  make  haste." 


BROADCAST.  137 

«  rr^HOU  art  the  God  that  doest  wonders.'* 
A  And  these  wonders  will  never  cease. 
We  are  repeatedly  surprised  by  them,  and  we 
shall  be.  Things  will  not  proceed  according 
to  our  low  and  feeble  measures.  We  are  to 
expect  great  things  while  God  reigns,  "  who 
only  doeth  wondrous  things."  They  will  be 
in  proportion  to  our  humble,  consistent,  patient 
faith.  "  Said  I  not  unto  thee,"  said  Jesus  to 
Martha,  at  her  brother's  grave,  "  that  if 
thou  wouldest  believe,  thou  shouldest  see  the 
glory  of  God?" 


ON  becoming  a  Christian,  we  convert 
everything  into  a  friend  and  helper, 
whereas  before  everything  was  liable  to  be 
against  us.  A  sinner's  conscience  gives  him 
constant  alarm  and  pain  till  its  voice  is  silenced. 
But  on  becoming  a  Christian,  he  invokes  its 
aid  :  — 

"  Conscience,  whom  I  with  opiates  plied, 
Now  wake  and  be  my  faithful  guide." 


188  BROADCAST. 

"  ¥_TAVING  food  and  raiment,  let  us  be 
JL  X  therewith  content."  A  small  inven- 
tory of  possessions.  But  there  is  nothing  else 
which  may  not  be  a  source  of  annoyance  and 
sorrow.  If  God  gives  us  more,  let  us  receive 
it,  but  only  as  stewards,  and  not  build  our 
happiness  upon  it.  —  One  of  our  richest  men 
told  his  confidential  clerk,  when  he  applied 
for  the  place,  that  the  wages  would  be  his 
food  and  clothing.  In  reply  to  his  remon- 
strance, the  rich  man  said,  "  That  is  all 
which  I  ever  received  from  my  whole  prop- 
erty." 


"TTOWBEIT,  not  all  that  came  out  of 
JL  X  Egypt  by  Moses."  Is  it  possible 
that,  after  such  experience,  any  of  them  could 
fail  of  the  promised  land?  Then  we  will 
not  presume  upon  our  supposed  conversion, 
nor  upon  the  signs  of  God's  favor  in  times 
past,  but  continually  labor  to  enter  into  that 
rest. 


BROADCAST.  139 

NOTICE  some  gentle  rebukes  of  unbe- 
lief ;  for  example :  Moses  was  not  com- 
manded to  smite  the  rock  the  second  time, 
but  simply  to  speak  to  it.  Again,  Samuel  did 
not  sacrifice  a  thousand  oxen  when  he  would 
assure  Israel  of  Divine  help  against  Philistia ; 
he  offered  "  a  sucking  lamb." 


THE  spoils  of  Samaria,  gathered  after  the 
retreat  of  its  army,  and  during  a  famine 
in  Jerusalem,  show  the  unthought-of  ways  in 
which  God  can  come  to  our  rehef  in  the 
greatest  extremity.  "  Trust  in  him  at  aU 
times." 


HERE  is  a  prescription  of  holy  writ  in 
cases  of  despondency  :  "  O  my  God, 
my  soul  is  cast  down  within  me  ;  therefore  I 
will  remember  thee."     What  could  be  better? 


140  BROADCAST. 

THERE  are  many  instructions  to  be 
gathered  from  the  words  of  Christ 
which  are  profitable  in  the  formation  of  char- 
acter and  the  guidance  of  conduct,  though 
not  essential  to  salvation.  For  example,  He 
inculcates  modesty :  "  When  thou  art  bid- 
den of  any  man  to  a  feast,"  &c.  He  ad- 
monishes us  to  act  in  secret,  under  the  ap- 
prehension that  our  most  private  words  and 
deeds  may  be  known.  "  Whatsoever  is  spo- 
ken in  the  ear,"  &c.  He  teaches  us  to  con- 
sider the  incapacity  of  some  to  appreciate  our 
good  things,  and  so  not  to  cast  our  pearls 
before  swine.  An  obliging  disposition,  a  read- 
iness to  do  a  kind  act,  are  enjoined  by  the 
general  rule,  "  Give  to  him  that  asketh  of 
thee,"  &c. 


IF  God  takes  away  earthly  objects,  however 
important  and  dear,  that  he  may  himself 
fill  the  vacant  places,  he  honors  you.  "  Let 
him  do  what  seemeth  him  good." 


BROADCAST.  141 

^  ^^0T>  left  him,  to  try  him,  that  he 
\<J  might  know  all  that  was  in  his 
heart."  So  with  us :  and  all  through  life 
the  painful  lessons  which  we  thereby  learn 
keep  us  humble,  make  us  watchful,  and  are 
among  the  most  powerful  means  of  insuring 
our  salvation. 


SELECT  one  of  the  many  specifications  in 
the  Saviour's  injuries  at  his  trial,  and 
during  the  time  preceding  and  following,  and 
dwell  upon  it.  For  example,  "  And  the  ser- 
vants did  strike  him  with  the  palms  of  their 
hands." 


THE  interview  between  Jesus  and  his 
mother  after  his  resurrection  is  not  re- 
corded. One  might  almost  say,  that  the  inspi- 
ration of  the  Bible  is  as  clearly  seen  in  that 
which  is  omitted  as  in  its  actual  contents. 


142  BROADCAST. 

ON  the  arrival  of  some  great  event,  some 
emergency,  some  critical  and  all-impor- 
tant turn  in  your  affairs,  you  cannot  pray. 
The  mind  is  too  much  excited  for  anything 
more  than  ejaculations.  They  are  heard ;  but 
how  good  it  is,  then,  to  reflect  that,  while  there 
were  no  excitements,  you  maintained  prayer 
and  walked  with  God,  irrespective  of  passing 
events.     Now  he  will  "  reward  thee  openly." 


"  \  ^-^  *^®  ^^^^  ^^  *^^*  house  was  great." 
Jl\.  It  might  have  been  '*  a  habitation  of 
God  through  the  Spirit."  Christ  was  often 
seen  at  its  door;  the  Holy  Spirit  was  often 
heard  within  striving  with  some  one  to  do 
him  good;  blessings  from  heaven  arrived  there 
without  number;  it  was  filled  "with  pleasant 
riches";  it  might  have  been  an  eternal  habita- 
tion. But  it  fell,  "and  great  was  the  fall 
of  it." 


BROADCAST.  143 

FROM  what  sins  is  Christ  saving  me  ? 
"  He  shall  save  his  people  from  their 
sins."  Not  merely  from  their  ftiture  conse- 
quences. Nor  is  his  object  merely  to  give  us 
hope.  Hence  you  who  despond  because  your 
hope  is  feeble,  repent,  forsake  sin,  believe,  be 
redeemed  from  all  iniquity.  This  was  the  pur- 
pose of  Christ's  death,  and  not  merely  to  give 
you  a  comfortable  expectation  of  heaven. 


"  TJE  went  down  to  Capernaum,  he  and 
M.  X  his  mother  and  his  brethren  and  his 
disciples;  and  they  continued  there  not  many 
days."  It  was  a  pleasant  gathering;  it  must 
have  been  a  heaven  on  earth !  But  rest, 
and  those  rich  enjoyments,  were,  for  him, 
"not  many  days."  He  must  be  about  his 
Father's  business.  We  have  snatches  of  bliss 
here  in  our  meetings  with  Christian  friends ; 
but  this  is  not   our  rest. 


144  BROADCAST. 

A  TRANSLATOR  and  a  commentator 
ought  to  be  men  of  faith.  Otherwise 
the  words  of  inspiration  passing  through  their 
minds  are  robbed  of  their  beautiful  freedom, 
and  come  to  us  in  a  cold  and  rigid  shape. 
There  is  an  artlessness  in  inspiration  which  a 
man  of  mere  exactness,  and,  much  more,  a 
doubting  man,  utterly  destroys.  It  is  painfiil 
to  read  his  translations   and  comments. 


AFIELD  of  tall,  ripe  grain,  bowing  under 
a  gentle  wind,  looks  Hke  a  great  wor- 
shipping host,  under  one  and  the  same  impulse 
of  heavenly  joy.  Each  of  those  stalks  has  its 
root,  its  distinct  organization,  its  full  number 
of  grains  ;  it  has  enjoyed  the  culture  of  the 
husbandman  and  the  sweet  influences  of  the 
heavens.  God  has  done  as  much  for  it  as  for 
its  neighbor,  knows  it  as  well  j  and  a  part  of 
its  duty  and  service  in  return  is  to  make  one 
in  a  harvest-field. 


BROADCAST.  145 

''  TT  OWL,  fir-tree,  for  the  cedar  is  fall- 
JL  X  en."  The  removal  of  great  and  good 
men  from  posts  of  usefulness,  when  they  are 
succeeded  by  inferior  and  unworthy  men,  is 
a  divine  judgment.  "And  I  will  give  chil- 
dren to  be  their  princes,  and  babes  shall  rule 
over  them." 


ACTING  on  coincidences  without  judg- 
ment, and  seeing  providences  without 
due  reflection,  is  as  bad  as  trusting  to 
dreams.  We  may  get  useful  hints  from 
dreams,  but  they  are  not  our  guide.  Wis- 
dom and  discretion  must  judge  as  to  the 
inferences   to   be   drawn  from   them. 


ESCAPES  from  imminent  danger  have  an 
effect  sometimes  on  good  people  to  make 
them  feel  safe.     God  was  there. 


146  BROADCAST. 

WAS  it  accidental  or  designed,  that  Paul, 
in  addressing  the  two  ministers,  Tim- 
othy and  Titus,  should  add  ''  mercy "  to  the 
"  grace  and  peace  "  with  which  he  addressed 
every  Church  to  whom  his  Epistles  are 
directed  ?  To  these  he  says,  "  Grace  be  unto 
you  and  peace " ;  but  to  the  ministers  he 
says,  "  Grace,  mercy,  and  peace.'*  Peter  also 
says,  "  Grace  and  peace,"  only,  to  Christians. 
"We  ministers  specially  need  the  "  mercy,"  — 
from  others,  for  our  mistakes,  and  our  inca- 
pacity ;  and  from  God,  for  our  sins,  which 
must  be  worse  than  those  of  others. 


THE  selection  of  Canaan  for  "  the  Holy 
Land,"  the  Arab  race,  and  other  things 
related  thereto,  are  striking  illustrations  of  the 
providence  of  God  coinciding  with  seemingly 
fixed  inevitable  laws  and  events,  as  though  all 
were  not  originally  designed  and  made  ex- 
pressly for  the  purposes  of  Redemption. 


BROADCAST.  147 

WHAT  impression  may  the  Bible  be  fairly- 
said  to  have  made  on  the  world  as  to 
essential  truths?  what,  amidst  and  underneath 
all  that  is  denominational  and  sectarian,  do 
we  find  to  be  accepted  by  all  who  receive  the 
Bible  as  "  the  word  of  God "  ?  On  every 
principle  of  common  sense  those  truths  are  the 
truths  of  God's  word. 


REPENTANCE  is  impossible  where  there 
is  no  atonement  for  sin.  This  is  capable 
of  a  strong  argument.  The  bearing  of  this 
truth  on  the  future  condition  of  the  wicked, 
when  there  shall  be  "no  more  sacrifice  for 
sin,"  is  obvious. 


IF  wicked  men  could  have  the   Most  High 
in   their   power,  it  is   not  difficult  to  see 
what  they  would  do  with  him. 


148  BROADCAST. 

THE  thought  of  never  coming  back  to 
this  world,  of  leaving  it  at  once  and 
forever,  is  deeply  affecting.  We  shall  be 
glad  if  it  be  better  for  our  having  Hved  in  it. 
"The  world  and  all  that  is  therein  shall  be 
burnt  up."  Even  if  we  inhabit  this  globe 
again,  we  shall  recognize  nothing,  if  every- 
thing shall  have  been  burnt  up.  Now  is  our 
time  to  work  for  the  good  of  the  world. 


THE  penitent  thief  had  a  better  right- 
eousness in  which  to  appear  before 
God  than  the  most  accomplished  moralist  in 
the  Sanhedrim. 


WHAT  a  good  kingdom  this  must  be, 
of  which  it  is  said,  it  "  is  not  meat 
and  drink,  but  righteousness,  and  peace,  and 
joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost.'* 


BROADCAST,  149 

SEE  the  natural  connection  here  :  "  Full 
of  goodness,  filled  .  with  all  knowledge, 
able,  also,  to  admonish  one  another."  We  do 
not  willingly  suffer  one  to  occupy  this  last  po- 
sition, unless  he  answers  to  the  first  two  parts 
of  the  description.  All  such  are  gladly  listened 
to  when  they  admonish. 


DREAMS  will  no  doubt  be  surpassed 
hereafter  by  realities ;  some  of  them 
exquisitely  pleasurable  and  others  inconceiva- 
bly dreadful.  "  Dull  sleep  instructs,  nor  sport 
vain  dreams   in  vain." 


BE  reverent  in  all  expressions  of  love  to 
God;  for  forms  of  speech  are  defences 
against  improprieties.  The  Saviour  is  our 
example  and  pattern  in  addressing  God. 


150  BROADCAST. 

CHRIST  was  to  Adam  a  man,  to  Abra- 
ham a  Hebrew,  to  Moses  a  prophet,  to 
Isaiah  a  man  of  sorrows,  to  David  a  king,  to 
Daniel  a  suffering,  sacrificed  Messiah.  There 
is  a  progression,  now,  in  the  minds  of  many 
respecting  Christ.  Let  them  not  be  discour- 
aged. "  Unto  you  that  fear  my  name  shall 
the  Sun  of  righteousness  arise  with  healing  in 
his  wings ;  and  ye  shall  go  forth,  and  grow  up 
like  calves  of  the  stall.'* 


WHEN  the  end  of  a  trial  is  evidently 
near,  we  see  how  easy  it  is  for  God 
to  clear  the  darkest  skies ;  we  generally  find 
that  all  has  happened  in  the  best  time;  we 
are  sorry  at  impatience ;  we  perhaps  feel 
grateful  for  the  subduing  and  softening  influ- 
ence of  the  trial,  and  we  may  well  fear  lest 
with  relief  we  forget  God.  "  The  Lord  will 
speak  peace  unto  his  people  and  to  his  saints; 
but  let  them  not  turn  again  to  folly.'* 


BROADCAST.  151 

THE  Saviour  went  three  times  into 
Gethsemane  on  that  night  of  his  agony. 
We  must  not  expect  that  a  single  prayer  of 
ours,  or  one  effort,  will  accomplish  any  great 
thing  for  our  souls  or  for  the  souls  of  others. 
The  Saviour  came  back  from  Gethsemane 
with  these  words  on  his  lips,  —  a  result  of 
his  experience  there :  "  Watch  and  pray 
that  ye   enter  not  into  temptation." 


WHEN  David  saw  that  the  Lord  had 
answered  him  in  the  threshing-floor 
of  Oman,  he  sacrificed  to  him  there.  We  do 
well  to  identify  our  acknowledgments  of  God's 
goodness  with  the  places  and  times  of  his  be- 
stowments. 


N 


EW  YEAR.     How  much  God  has  to  do 
for  you  this  year !     Begin  it  with  him. 


152  BROADCAST. 

ON  revisiting  places,  where  God  was 
good  to  us,  in  preserving,  helping, 
comforting,  and  in  various  ways  blessing  us. 
"And  let  us  arise  and  go  up  to  Bethel,  and 
I  will  make  there  an  altar  unto  God,  who 
answered  me  in  the  day  of  my  distress,  and 
was  with  me  in  the  way  which  I  went." 
Sadness  in  memory  of  the  past  should  not 
keep  us  from  doing  this. 


IN  great  bodily  pain  or  mental  distress,  we 
are  instructed  how  to  vent  our  groans, 
and  on  whom  to  call,  by  these  words  of  the 
Most  High :  "  And  they  have  not  cried  unto 
me  with  their  heart  when  they  howled  upon 
their  beds." 


F 


ANCY  yourself  with  men  of  the  Bible, 
comparing  your  opportunities  with  theirs. 


BROADCAST,  153 

THEY  who  love  and  worship  the  Holy- 
Spirit  are  deeply  interested  in  the  be- 
lief of  judicious  critics,  that  by  the  "  seven 
spirits  which  are  before  his  throne,"  is  desig- 
nated some  infinite  mystery  concerning  the 
Holy  Spirit,  concerning  which,  indeed,  it  is  in 
vain  to  inquire,  but  the  unfolding  of  which 
hereafter  will  excite  our  wonder  and  love  with 
regard  to  him  beyond  expression. 


"    \  ^^   ^^^  *^^^  Dagon   and  set   him  in 
XjL    his  place  again."     Men  sometimes  re- 
peat the  sins   and   foUies   for  which  they  had 
been  signally  humbled  and  chastised. 


H 


EIRS  of  heaven  get  a  larger  "  earnest 
of  their  inheritance  "  than  heirs  of  rich 


men. 

7* 


154  BROADCAST. 

IT  is  a  beautiful  illustration  of  the  nature 
of  faith,  that,  though  we  speak  so  often 
to  God,  and  Christ,  and  the  Holy  Spirit,  and 
have  no  audible  or  sensible  reply,  we  continue 
to  pray.  We  should  not  long  address  a  fellow- 
creature  without  some  response.  But  we  are 
answered,  and  are  made  to  feel  that  we  are  ;  — 
not  always  at  the  time  of  praying,  —  for  that 
might  weaken  faith. 


IF  you  so  love  Christ  whom  you  have  not 
seen,  how  must  it  be  when  you  see  him  ? 
Your  eternity  is  to  be  an  eternity  of  loving 
and  being  loved. 


■A 


ND    a    great  company  of   the    priests 


must    not   despair  of   conversions    among    the 
ecclesiastics  of  erroneous  systems. 


BROADCAST.  155 

THE  key  note  of  preaching  should  be 
Salvation,  as  it  is  that  of  the  Gospel, 
and  all  we  say  should  be  governed  accord- 
ingly. "For  God  hath  not  appointed  us  to 
wrath,  but  to  obtain  salvation  through  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ." 


"  |7>0R  none  might  enter  into  the  king's 
JL  gate  clothed  in  sackcloth."  Esther  iv. 
2.  Would  that  we  could  spiritualize  this  rule 
at  the  gate  of  mercy  and  at  the  gate  of  the 
Lord's  house. 


JOSEPH  was  two  years  old  or  less  when 
his  mother  died.  He  surely  could  not 
have  succeeded  better  in  hfe  had  she  hved 
to  train  him.  God  does  not  need  even  a 
mother  in  fulfilling  his  gracious  purposes  to 
a  child  of  his  covenanted   love. 


156  BROADCAST. 


"T7VCCLESIASTES"  is,  much  of  it,  the 
I  -^  moody  reflections  of  a  man  troubled 
with  the  mysteries  of  Divine  Providence.  Some 
passages  in  the  writings  of  the  able  and  elo- 
quent John  Foster  remind  one  of  this  book. 
Pamell's  "  Hermit "  may  profitably  be  read 
on  this  subject. 


THERE  is  only  one  affection  in  which 
there  is  no  danger  of  excess,  and  that 
is  Love  to  God.  Everything  else  may  be  in- 
ordinate and  hurtful ;  but  that  which  is  best 
of  all  may  be  indulged  without  limitation  or 
fear. 


INTOLERANCE  is  laid  down  by  the 
Apostle  as  a  sign  of  being  in  the  wrong. 
"  But  as  then  he  that  was  bom  after  the 
flesh  persecuted  him  that  was  bom  after  the 
Spirit,  even  so  it  is  now." 


BROADCAST.  157 

EVERY  future  hour  will  have  its  own 
duty,  sorrow,  care ;  how  then  can  you 
postpone  the  duty  of  the  present  hour,  which 
is,  to  repent,  and  so  burden  a  future  hour  with 
it,  which  will  be  sufficiently  occupied  with  its 
own  urgent  concern  ?  Men  of  business  know 
how  wrong  this  is  in  their  private  affairs. 


SEE  the  effect  of  one  angel  on  the  Ro- 
man guard  at  the  tomb  of  Christ. 
"And  for  fear  of  him  the  keepers  did  shake, 
and  became  as  dead  men."  Hence,  when 
"  the  Son  of  Man  shall  come  in  his  glory, 
and  all  the  holy  angels  with  him,"  well  is 
it  said,  "  then  shall  he  sit  upon  the  throne 
of  his  glory." 


B 


E    "  wise   to  do  good."      Invent  ways, 
create   means,   find   subjects. 


158  BROADCAST. 

«  ^  ND  had  a  wall  great  and  high."  All 
jLJL  these  emblems  of  heaven  must  of 
course  be  in  keeping  with  the  nature  of  the 
place.  If  so,  it  may  properly  be  asked,  What 
need  of  a  wall  round  about  heaven,  if  heaven 
be  not  in  any  sense  exclusive  ?  Whom  will 
there  be  to  shut  out,  if  all  are  saved  ?  And  if 
all  are  saved,  why  need  they  be  shut  in  ? 


WHENEVER  we  detect  any  evil  thing 
in  us,  let  us  act  toward  it  as  we  do 
toward  an  eruption,  or  a  disease,  or  a  damage 
threatening  the  house. 


THE  Holy  Spirit  made  the  Bible  for  his 
chief  instrument  in  his  official  work. 
He  took  sixteen  centuries  in  which  to  do  it, 
from  Moses  to  John. 


BROADCAST.  159 

THERE  are  many  commands  in  the  Old 
Testament  from  God  himself  to  love 
Him,  —  not  invitations,  nor  permissions,  nor 
exhortations,  but  commands,  enforced  by  the 
most  solemn  injunctions  and  penalties.  This 
may  be  a  relief  to  those  who  fear  to  approach 
God  with  their  affections. 


WHAT  if,  ages  hence,  we  should  be 
summoned,  for  the  first  time,  to  eat 
the  flesh  and  drink  the  blood  of  Him  whom 
we  shall  have  known  as  our  final  Judge. 
What  a  sacrament  that  would  be !  We  do  it 
now,  in  anticipation.  What  a  sacrament  this 
will  hereafter  seem  to  have  been  I 


D 


EATH  made  Pharaoh  give  up  his  bond- 
men and  his  jewels. 


160  BROADCAST. 

SOME  who  are  convinced  and  persuaded 
neglect,  and  sometimes  refuse,  to  make  a 
Christian  profession,  for  the  reason  that  a  friend 
is  believed  to  have  died  without  a  Christian 
hope.  To  embrace  a  certain  faith  will  seem 
to  be  a  condemnation  of  the  friend.  "If  he  is 
lost,  I  prefer  to  be  lost  with  him !  "  Perhaps, 
however,  in  his  last  hours,  unknown  to  you, 
he  accepted  that  Gospel  which  you,  for  his 
sake,  reject,  and  so  he  may  be  saved,  and 
you,  by  loving  him  more  than  Christ,  may  be 
forever  separated  from  both. 


THE  Hfe  of  Christ  was  a  life  of  incidents. 
Let  us  be  willing  that  ours  should  be 
so,  meeting  each  as  he  did.  Then  we  shall 
always  have  something  to  do,  and  be  saved 
from  that  aimless,  listless  condition  which  is 
the  bane  of  Christian  character  and  usefulness. 
We  shall  also  be  kept  from  uselessly  looking 
out  for  some  great  good  to  accomplish. 


BROADCAST.  161 

^^  \  ^^  ^^  *^^^  *^^^  blind  man  by  the 
-ZTJL  hand,  and  led  hhn  out  of  the  town.*' 
Perhaps  the  excitement  of  being  cured  in 
public  would  have  been  inconsistent  with  the 
circumstances  of  the  patient.  If  so,  see  the 
Divine  regard  to  circumstances,  even  in  a 
miracle.  We  must  regard  means,  and  adapt 
ourselves  to  circumstances,  not  relying  on 
Divine  power  for  preternatural  help.  When 
this  blind  man  was  cured,  he  was  sent  to 
his  own  house,  and  was  forbidden  to  go  into 
the  town.  If  we  neglect  the  use  of  proper 
means,   we  must  cast  no  blame   on   God. 


"  fT^HY  gentleness  hath  made  me  great.*' 
A  God  knows  how  to  encourage,  to 
help  us  on,  "  gently  lead "  us  ;  whereas 
harshness  and  violence,  with  impatience,  jfrus- 
trate  the  best  designs.  The  Bible  has  the 
only  true  standard  and  rules  of  education.  It 
is   a  book   for  parents. 


162  BROADCAST- 

WHEN  some  new  system  in  religion 
is  broached,  or  a  popular  delusion 
springs  up,  they  who  are  carried  away  by 
them  are  those  who  never  knew  by  experi- 
ence that  word  of  truth  and  wisdom,  "  It  is 
a  good  thing  that  the  heart  be  established 
with  grace."  We  need  so  to  instruct  the 
people  in  systematic  divinity  that  they  will  be 
furnished  with  defences  against  cunningly  de- 
vised fables  and  winds  of  doctrine. 


THE  intrepid  conduct  of  Jonathan  and 
his  armor-bearer  had  a  wonderful  effect 
in  turning  the  tide  of  war  in  favor  of  Israel ; 
so  that,  but  for  Saul's  folly,  they  would  have 
almost  destroyed  the  Phihstines.  See  what 
one  public-spirited  man  can  do  in  a  church  or 
corporation.  People  need  leaders.  If  but 
one  man  will  show  himself  efficient  and  com- 
petent, a  host  will  often  follow,  who  would 
not  lead. 


BROADCAST.  163 

SEVERITY,  and,  much  more,  unfairness, 
in  a  judge,  mars  the  effect  of  justice. 
No  doubt  the  last  judgment  will  so  illustrate 
the  perfect  rectitude  of  God  as  to  leave  not 
the  least  impression  of  severity  on  a  good 
mind.  Hence  holy  beings  are  represented  as 
saying,  "  Alleluia,"  at  the  Divine  sentence. 
This  necessity  of  so  commending  himself  at 
the  great  day  to  the  secret  approbation  of  all 
the  good,  is  perhaps  referred  to  when  it  is 
said  of  God,  "  Is  God  unrighteous  that  taketh 
vengeance?  God  forbid,  for  how  then  should 
God  judge  the  world  ?  " 


"  13  UT  though  he  had  done  so  many  mir- 
JLJ  acles,  yet  they  believed  not  on  him." 
Belief,  therefore,  does  not  depend  on  the 
amount  or  force  of  evidence ;  nor  conviction 
on  clearness  and  power  of  statement.  See 
the  reason  in  the  passage  from  which  the 
Evangelist  here  quotes,  Is.  vi. 


164  BROADCAST. 

PETER  moved  that  the  place  of  Judas  be 
filled.  With  what  feelings  must  he  have 
made  that  motion.  But  for  the  infinite  grace 
of  his  dear  Lord,  one  would  also  have  had 
occasion  to  move  that  Peter's  place  also  be 
filled.  But  being  forgiven  and  restored,  we 
cannot  but  respect  Peter  for  being  able  and 
willing  to  make  the  motion.  Learn  some- 
thing fi-om  this,  distrustful  penitent. 


BE  not  ambitious  to  be  thought  very  good, 
a  saint.  This  is  one  of  the  many  forms 
of  spiritual  pride.  Try  to  feel  and  do  right, 
for  its  own  sake,  and  to  please  God. 


GOD,  who  had  just  punished  Israel  fear- 
fully, nevertheless  would   not  let  Ba- 
laam curse  them. 


BROADCAST.  165 

SOME  are  not  satisfied  with  those  proofs 
which  are  enough  for  a  well-balanced 
mind.  We  ought  to  know  when  belief  is  rea- 
sonably demanded,  in  spiritual  things,  and  not 
be  continually  seeking  for  evidence.  Two 
hinges,  or  at  most  three,  are  enough  for  a 
door;  but  some  minds,  in  requiring  evidence, 
are  like  one  who  should  fill  the  whole  length 
of  the   door   with   hinges. 


ONE  of  the  first  things  which  a  physi- 
cian says  to  his  patient  is,  "  Let  me 
see  your  tongue."  A  spiritual  adviser  might 
often   do  the  same. 


COMMIT  to  the  Blessed  Three  m  One, 
severally,  particular  wants,  sorrows,  re- 
quests, which  seem  related  to  their  several  of- 
fices and  parts  in  the  work  of  redemption. 


166  BROADCAST. 

"  ^  HALL  we  be  judged  twice  ?  "  it  is  fre- 
kJ  quently  asked.  "  Why  should  there  be 
two  judgment-days  ? "  It  is  obvious  that  no 
man's  account  can  be  fully  made  up  till  his 
influence  in  this  world  has  wholly  ceased ;  and 
it  will  not  cease  till  time  is  no  longer.  The 
influence  of  parents,  and  preachers,  and  authors, 
and  good  and  bad  men  of  every  description, 
will  be  transmitted  to  the  last  day.  Moreover, 
there  will  be  others  who  will  be  included  in 
the  judgment,  for  good  or  ill,  of  every  one. 


NOTWITHSTANDING  God  was  angry 
at  Israel's  demand  for  a  king,  yet 
when  it  was  settled,  God  would  have  blessed 
their  first  king,  had  he  obeyed  him,  as  he 
blessed  David,  the  second  king.  Hence,  when 
We  have  greatly  disapproved  of  a  thing,  and 
it  is  done,  and  established,  let  us  learn  from 
our  God  how  to  feel  and  act  with  regard  to 
it. 


BROADCAST.  167 

APPLYING  the  rule,  "  By  their  fruits  ye 
shall  know  them,"  to  the  Holy  Spirit, 
and  contemplating  that  passage  in  which  "  the 
fruits  of  the  Spirit "  are  declared,  and  among 
which  "  love,  joy,  and  peace  "  are  the  "  first 
fruits,"  we  find  in  the  Holy  Spirit  an  occasion 
for  love  and  adoration  in  no  respect  less  than 
in  the  Father  and  the  Son. 


«  T)LEAD  my  cause,  0  God."  What  an 
1.  advocate.  Seek  him  always  before  ap- 
plying to  another.  Who  has  not  continually 
some  cause  for  God  to  plead  ?  There  are 
always  some  on  whose  will  and  decision  our 
happiness  in  a  measure  depends. 


IT  is  not  best  for  us  in  religion  always  to 
be  in  raptures.     We  need  absences  in  our 
friendship  with  God  to  try  us. 


168  BROADCAST. 

THE  written  word  is  far  better  than  the 
Mount  of  Transfiguration.  For  what 
did  the  three  disciples  do  there?  They  were 
sore  afraid,  they  fell  asleep,  and  they  wist 
not  what  they  said.  One  of  them,  speaking 
of  the  scene  on  the  mount,  gives  the  pref- 
erence to  the  Bible.  "  We  have  a  more 
sure  word  of  prophecy,"   says  he. 


A  LIMB  of  a  peach-tree  broken  off  in 
my  friend's  garden  had  a  hundred  and 
twenty-five  peaches  on  it,  nearly  ripe.  "  If 
a  man  abide  not  in  me,  he  is  cast  forth  as  a 
branch,  and  is  withered,"  —  no  matter  how 
great  his  apparent  usefulness,  or  his  desirable- 
ness to  others. 


O 


NE  object  in  our  temptations  is,   to  foil 
and  afflict  the  tempter. 


BROADCAST.  169 

DENOMINATIONAL  lines  and  rules  are 
helpful  in  our  imperfect  condition,  some- 
what like  ruled  paper.  True,  theoretically, 
every  one  should  be  able  to  write  straight. 
Some,  who  think  that  to  write  on  ruled  paper 
is  not  refined,  put  their  own  ruled  lines  under- 
neath their  pages.  We  meet  with  some  who 
are  decidedly  opposed  to  denominational  dis- 
tinctions, yet  they  are  as  strongly  attached  to 
their  own  way  in  religion  as  those  are  whom 
they  regard  as  sectarian.  They  discard  the 
common  ruled  sheet,  but  are  sure  to  put  down 
rules  and  lines  of  their  own  when  they  write. 


THERE  is  never  a  greater  longing  for 
more  than  this  world  can  give,  than 
in  one  who  is  on  the  very  point  of  receiving 
the  utmost  wish  of  the  heart.  It  is  a  good 
time  then  for  a  judicious  Christian  friend  to 
speak  of  spiritual  religion  and  the  favor  of 
God. 


170  BROADCAST. 

SNOW-FLAKES  are  now  skilfully  copied, 
in  their  geometrical  forms  of  crystalliza- 
tion, in  cuttings  of  delicate  paper.  The  originals 
are  "  those  marvellous  things  which  we  can- 
not comprehend,"  mentioned  by  Elihu  among 
the  great  things  of  God.  Yet  in  March  you 
will  see  in  our  streets  the  horses  with  their 
heavy  loads  floundering  in  ditches  of  miry 
snow,  every  particle  of  which,  however,  as  it 
came  down  from  heaven,  was  a  pure  crystal, 
each  varying  from  the  rest  according  to  Di- 
vine skill.  And  you  will  have  reflections  at 
the  sight  which  it  is  needless  here  to  specify. 


WE  are  apt  to  have  a  misapprehension 
of  the  Saviour's  power  and  wilhngness 
to  do  better  for  us  than  we  think,  correspond- 
ing with  that  of  the  woman  of  Samaria,  when 
she  said  to  Him  who  made  all  things,  "  Sir, 
thou  hast  nothing  to  draw  with,  and  the  well 
is   deep." 


BROADCAST.  171 

THERE  is  a  difference  between  "  throng- 
ing "  Christ,  and  "  touching  "  him  with 
the  finger  of  faith.  "  The  muhitude  throng 
thee,"  said  the  disciples,  "  and  sayest  thou 
who  touched  me  ?  "  "  Somebody  touched  me," 
said  Jesus.  He  knew  that  touch,  amid  the 
pressure  of  the  throng.  Not  one  act  of  faith 
in  him  is  unnoticed  or  disregarded. 


ON  meeting  with  a  striking  passage  of 
God's  word,  copy  it,  and  lay  it  back 
in  your  Bible.  On  opening  the  book  some 
time  after,  you  will  be  greatly  cheered  and 
comforted  on  reading  that  passage  in  your 
own  handwriting. 


WHAT    in    prayer    does    God    probably 
most  regard  ?     "  Behold   thou   requir- 
est  truth  in  the  inward  part." 


172  BROADCAST. 

SOMETHING  in  Paul's  words  on  one  oc- 
casion warrants  the  belief  that,  to  some 
of  his  natural  feehngs,  the  work  of  preaching 
was  not  wholly  agreeable.  "  If  I  do  this 
thing  willingly,  I  have  a  reward ;  but  if 
against  my  will,  a  dispensation  of  the  Gospel 
is  committed  unto  me."  "  For  necessity  is 
laid  upon  me ;  yea,  woe  is  unto  me  if  I  preach 
not  the  Gospel."  Who  would  choose,  for  its 
own  sake,  to  be,  professionally,  a  reprover,  a 
constant  warning,  opposing  men's  wishes,  his 
presence  an  interruption  and  restraint,  and 
ghostly  associations  with  him  dwelling  in  the 
minds  of  men  ?  And  yet  for  the  love  of  souls, 
and  for  Christ's  sake,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
absolute  enjoyments  which  make  the  work  of 
the  ministry  the  most  enviable  employment, 
every  true  minister  of  Christ  wiU  say,  with 
Paul,  "  Neither  count  I  my  hfe  dear  unto 
myself,  that  I  may  finish  my  course  with  joy, 
and  the  ministry  which  I  have  received  of 
the  Lord  Jesus,  to  testify  the  Gospel  of  the 
grace  of  God." 


A 


BROADCAST,  173 

MAN  comes  into  a  church  when  the 
Lord's  Supper  is  administered,  and  sees 
among  the  stated  communicants  one  who  has 
defrauded  him.  The  adversary  of  souls  seldom 
has  a  better  opportunity  to  keep  any  one  out 
of  heaven,  than  in  the  case  of  this  injured  and 
justly  indignant  man.  It  would  be  a  noble 
triumph  of  Christian  principle,  but,  alas  !  hardly 
to  be  looked  for,  if  the  sight  of  this  dishonest 
man  should  excite  in  the  other  a  desire  and 
purpose  to  be,  in  deed  and  truth,  such  a  fol- 
lower of  Christ  as  he  sees  this  man  is  not, 
but  should  be.  The  future  condemnation  of  a 
hypocrite  will  not  make  perdition  less  tolerable 
for  him  who  should  stumble  over  this  false 
professor  into  hell. 


^^npAO  me  every  knee  shall  bow."  What 
JL  bowing  of  the  knee  will  be  seen  at 
tlie  last  day !  Now  that  it  will  cost  us  some- 
thing to  bow  the  knee  to  Jesus,  we  do  well 
to  improve  our   opportunity. 


174  BROADCAST. 

HEARING  the  criticisms  which  some 
make  on  members  of  the  Church,  the 
thought  arises,  Would  that  those  who  have 
such  decided  views  of  the  Christian  life  were 
themselves  members  of  the  Church,  to  afford 
us  patterns  of  true  Christian  excellence!  The 
rules  which  they  lay  down,  and  the  exactions 
which  they  make  with  regard  to  Christians, 
will  be  likely  to  be  produced  on  their  trial 
at  the  last  day.  "  The  servant  that  knew  his 
Lord's  will,"  must  expect  plain  dealing. 


THE  way  to  overcome  the  fear  of  dying 
is  to  understand  and  practise  upon  that 
word, —  "And  whether  we  die,  we  die  unto 
the  Lord."  K  we  think  only  of  ourselves  in 
connection  with  our  death,  of  course  we  are 
liable  to  encounter  the  terrors  of  death  alone ; 
but  if  we  desire  that  we  may  "die  unto  the 
Lord,"  he  will  regard  our  death  as  connected 
with  his  honor  and  glory. 


BROADCAST.  175 

THAT  the  Old  Testament  is  not  sangui- 
nary in  spirit,  observe  that  the  decora- 
tions of  the  temple  were  not  any  of  them 
images  or  emblems  of  war.  Many  things  in 
the  temple  were,  on  the  contrary,  of  a  do- 
mestic nature.  Its  main  representation,  its 
"  altar-piece,"  was  "  the  cherubims  of  glory 
shadowing  the  mercy-seat." 


ONE  impression  which  the  whole  Bible 
makes  on  a  thoughtful  mind  is,  that 
God  has  had  exceeding  trouble  to  make  this 
world  love  him,  and  that  he  has  succeeded  as 
yet  to  a  very  limited  degree. 


THE  name  of  God  occurs  four  times  in 
the  last  two  verses  of  Exodus  ii.    There 
is  great  pathos  there. 


176  BROADCAST. 

THOUGH  we  deserve  all  we  suffer,  and 
more,  yet  God,  who  is  rich  in  mercy, 
gives  us  sometimes  compensatory  blessings  in 
sorrows.  "  He  stayeth  his  rough  wind  in  the 
day  of  his  east  wind."  David  knew  this  fea- 
ture in  the  gracious  dealings  of  God  with  us, 
when  he  said  of  Shimei,  "It  may  be  that 
the  Lord  will  look  on  mine  affliction,  and  that 
the  Lord  will  requite  me  good  for  his  curs- 
ing this  day.'* 


IT  was  one  who  leaned  on  Jesus'  bosom, 
who  was  able  to  ask,  more  emphatically 
than  the  rest,  who  was  the  traitor.  Peter 
beckoned  to  him  for  the  purpose.  The  put- 
ting of  that  question  is  noted  by  the  writer 
who  finished  John's  Gospel  by  designating 
John  as  him  who  leaned  on  the  Saviour's 
breast  at  supper,  "  and  said,  Lord,  which  is  he 
that  betrayeth  thee  ? "  The  confidence  which 
there  is  in  love  controls  even  our  self-distrust. 
"  Perfect  love  casteth  out  fear." 


BROADCAST,  177 

IF  we  need  to  be  qualified  in  heaven  for 
some  special  service  of  great  importance, 
perhaps  the  preparation  will  be  by  some  ex- 
ceeding great  blessing,  as  in  this  world  we 
are  thus  qualified  by  a  very  great  affliction. 
"  Instead  of  the  thorn  shall  come  up  the  fir- 
tree,  and  instead  of  the  brier  shall  come  up 
the  myrtle-tree." 


WHEN  we  read,  or  hear  it  said,  that  an 
advocate  "  appeared  "  for  a  party,  we 
may  be  reminded  of  that  passage  where  it  is 
said  that  Christ  has  gone  into  heaven  "  now  to 
appear  in  the  presence  of  God  for  us."  Our 
case  there  needs  great  attention,  infinite  skill 
and  power,  and  an  ever-wakeful  interest. 


T 


HERE  is  a  credulity  in   unbelief  which 
surpasses  that  of  the  superstitious. 


178  BROADCAST, 

THE  seal  is  now  put  upon  all  our  words 
and  deeds  in  connection  with  those  who 
have  died.  Those  words  and  deeds  recurring 
to  the  memory,  now  seem  important.  We  do 
well  to  live  with  surviving  friends  under  the 
influence  which  the  recollections  of  particular 
words  and  deeds  now  exert. 


DISPOSITION  in  children,  and  in  our- 
selves when  we  see  our  deficiency,  is 
in  no  way  so  well  cultivated  as  to  see  the 
perfect  example  of  it  in  Christ,  and  its  illus- 
trations in  his  conduct,  and  to  ke^p  them 
before  the  mind. 


GOOD  parents  have  a  special  claim  on 
God  to  support  their  authority.  So 
have  upright  magistrates.  So  had  the  Apos- 
tles in  working  miracles. 


BROADCAST.  179 

A  YOUNG  daughter  of  a  friend,  when 
she  was  dying,  asked  her  father  to  for- 
give certain  things  which  she  specified.  The 
father  did  not  rememher  them,  and  had  noth- 
ing, it  seemed  to  him,  to  forgive.  It  is,  in 
effect,  so  with  God,  when  we  repent.  "As 
far  as  the  east  is  from  the  west,  so  far  hath 
he  removed  our   transgressions  from  us." 


''  yi  ND  Jesus  sat  over  against  the  treas- 
XjL  ury."  With  him  for  a  witness,  let  us 
order  our  contributions  to  his  cause  aright, 
remembering  the  scene  which  ensued  when 
he  took  his  place  on  that  occasion. 


HEARING  one  complain  that  he  did  not 
know  that  God  had  elected  him,  the 
question  was  put  to  him,  "  Have  you  '  elected ' 
God?" 


180  BROADCAST. 

THE  manner  of  Christ's  ascension  into 
heaven  may  be  said  to  have  been  an 
instance  of  Divine  simplicity  and  sublimity 
combined,  which  scarcely  has  a  parallel.  While 
in  the  act  of  blessing  his  disciples,  he  was 
parted  from  them,  and  was  carried  up,  and 
disappeared  behind  a  cloud.  There  was  no 
pomp ;  nothing  could  have  been  more  simple. 
How  can  the  followers  of  this  Lord  and  Mas- 
ter rely  on  pomp  and  ceremony  to  spread  his 
religion,  when  he,  its  founder,  gave  no  counte- 
nance to  such  appeals  to  the  senses  of  men? 
Had  some  good  men  been  consulted  about 
the  manner  of  the  ascension,  we  can  imagine 
the  result. 


JESUS  furnished  the  technical  ground  for 
his  condemnation.  The  witnesses  had 
not  agreed.  —  "  Thou  sayest  that  I  am  "  ;  or, 
"  I  am  that  [which]  thou  sayest,"  i.  e.  a  King. 
This  was  that  "good  confession."  —  "I  lay 
down  my  life  for  the  sheep."  "No  man  tak- 
eth  it  from  me,  but  I  lay  it  down  of  myself." 


BROADCAST.  181 

WOULD  we  think  it  possible  that  God 
should  forgive  us  before  we  repent  ? 
No,  says  the  theologian,  that  would  violate 
the  whole  system  of  truth.  Let  us  adhere  to 
well-established  systems  ;  but  there  is  something 
above  all  systems  in  this  appeal  of  the  Most 
High :  "  I  have  blotted  out  as  a  thick  cloud 
thy  transgressions,  and  as  a  cloud  thy  sins. 
Return  unto  me,  for  I  have  redeemed  thee." 
Here  is  the  image  of  one  approaching  another 
with  a  bond  cancelled,  and  appealing  by  it 
for  the  debtor's  confidence  and  love.  We  do 
this,  sometimes,  to  subdue  a  man  ;  why  may 
not  God  deal  thus  with  a  sinner? 


THISTLES  should  be  mowed  in  a  wet 
day,  else  the  thistle-down  will  spread 
the  seeds.  The  best  time  to  reprove  and  to 
correct  is,  when  the  feelings  are  inclined  to 
be  penitential.  Reproof  in  times  of  happiness 
or  gladness  is  apt   to  perpetuate  the  evil. 


182  BROADCAST. 

"  TJE  hoped  also  that  money  should  have 
JL  A  been  given  him  of  Paul,  that  he 
might  loose  him ;  wherefore  he  sent  for  him 
the  oftener,  and  communed  with  him."  Poor, 
base  man  I  never  was  money  looked  for  from 
a  more  unlikely  source,  and  never  does  the 
love  of  it  seem  so  contemptible  as  when  thus 
brought  in  contrast  with  the  noble  Apostle, 
and  the  infinite  riches  which  he  was  commis- 
sioned to  bestow. 


A  FRIEND  had  nearly  a  thousand  potted 
plants  in  his  consei'vatory  which  were 
rooting.  He  did  not  seem  to  be  so  much  in- 
terested in  them  as  when  he  came  to  some 
full-grown  heath,  and  lifted  it  up,  and  said, 
"  Was  there  ever  such  whiteness  ?  "  —  Strange 
if  God  does  not  love  you  more  when  you  are 
old  than  he  did  when  you  were  young.  How 
he  has  watched,  and  cultivated,  and  reared 
you.  "  And  even  to  your  old  age  I  am  he, 
and  even  to  hoar  hairs  I  will  carry  you." 


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BROADCAST.  183 

HAT  a  scene  that  must  have  been  of 


which  it  is  said,  "  When  he  bring- 
eth  in  the  first-begotten  into  the  world  he 
saith,  And  let  all  the  angels  of  God  worship 
him."  Judging  from  the  effect  of  being  su- 
perseded here,  it  must  have  been  a  trial  of 
virtue  on  the  part  of  angels  to  see  one  of  an 
inferior  race  exalted  to  the  infinite  dignity  of 
the  incarnation.  We  were  then  honored ;  our 
nature  was  promoted ;  we  are  joint-heirs  with 
Christ. 


WHAT  a  position  does  a  preacher  oc- 
cupy,—  such  a  congregation  attending 
to  him,  and  receiving  that  which  he  is  led  to 
give  them,  and  in  silence,  with  no  reply  nor 
dispute,  and  with  confidence  in  him.  It  should 
make  us  love  those  who  thus  listen  to  us. 
We  must  be  careful  not  to  abuse  our  power 
in  the  Gospel.  We  must  give  our  best  efforts 
and  energies  to  our  sermons,  in  return  for  the 
privilege  of  preaching. 


184:  BROADCAST. 

IF  we  knew  and  could  feel  as  much  con- 
cerning God,  and  Christ,  and  heaven,  as 
we  sometimes  desire,  probably  it  would  make 
us  insane.  We  have  seen  horticulturists  pull 
down  the  awnings  in  their  greenhouses.  Plants 
may  sometimes  have  too  much  sun  ;  and  so 
may  we. 


LOOKING  at  one  of  the  most  extensive 
prospects  in  this  or  any  land,  where 
everything  great  and  beautiful  was  combined, 
it  was  affecting  to  think,  —  He  that  made  all 
this  died  for  me. 


TO  those  whose  great  effort  is  to  be  rich 
against  the  time  when  they  are  old, 
the  Apostle  James  may  say,  "Ye  have  heaped 
treasure  together  for  the  last  days,"  when  you 
can  enjoy  it  but  little,  and  only  for  a  little 
while.     Were  we  made  for  this  ? 


BROADCAST.  185 

PERHAPS  we  do  not  make  enough  of 
worship, — pubhc,  social,  family,  private, 
as  offerings  to  God.  He  expects  them,  as 
he  did  ancient  oblations.  They  take  the  place 
of  all  those  pious  acts  of  acknowledgment 
and  adoration,  and  they  are  required  now, 
through  our  Great  High-Priest,  as  anciently 
the  offerings  were  made  through  earthly  min- 
isters. "  By  him,  therefore,  let  us  ojBfer  the 
sacrifice  of  praise  to  God  continually,  that  is, 
the  fruit  of  our  lips,  giving  thanks  to  his 
name."  Each  Christian  is  a  priest  unto 
God.  "  Ye  also  as  lively  stones  are  built 
up  a  spiritual  house,  an  holy  priesthood,  to 
offer  up  spiritual  sacrifices,  acceptable  to  God 
through  Jesus  Christ." 


CHRIST  never  tasted  one  of  the  pleas- 
ures of  sin.  Holy  angels  never  did. 
Souls  in  heaven  never  will.  Can  those  pleas- 
ures be  essential  to  happiness  ? 


186  BROADCAST. 

GOD  seeks  our  good  opinion  of  him, 
wishes  to  be  understood,  appreciated, 
loved.  The  Old  Testament  abounds  in  proofe 
of  this.  A  collection  of  passages  illustrating 
Divine  grief  at  ill-treatment  from  men  would 
show  surpassing  pathos.  As  one  instance, — 
in  Malachi  i.,  —  God  comforts  himself  against 
the  wicked  Jews  by  the  prospect  of  repent- 
ing Gentiles.  "  For  from  the  rising  of  the 
sun  even  unto  the  going  down  of  the  same, 
i^y  name  shall  be  great  among  the  Gentiles." 


"  1  j  UT  while  I  am  coming,  another  step- 
JL#  peth  down  before  me."  He  makes 
us  think,  though  he  was  not  one  of  them,  of 
those  hapless  people  who  are  always  too  late, 
or  who  lose  an  advantage,  or  meet  often  with 
ludicrous  accidents.  They  are,  however,  "  im- 
potent folk,"  as  to  energy  and  practical  wis- 
dom. Their  reading  should  be  largely  in  the 
Book  of  Proverbs. 


BROADCAST.  187 

ON  spending  Sabbaths  at  Cemeteries. 
Better  be  in  the  house  of  God.  You 
will  be  nearer  your  friends  in  heaven  there 
than  at  their  graves.  They  are  sorry  to  see 
you  at  their  sepulchres  on  the  Lord's  day. 
Do  you  wish  for  a  good  example  on  this 
point  ?  Even  those  who  entombed  the  Lord 
Jesus  would  not  visit  his  sepulchre  on  the 
Sabbath.  "  They  returned  and  prepared 
spices,  and  rested  the  seventh  day,  according 
to  the  commandment."  What  an  unobjection- 
able thing,  it  may  be  said,  to  have  spent  that 
Sabbath  at  the  Saviour's  tomb.  But  these 
friends  of  Jesus  were  right.  They  kept  the 
unrepealed  commandment. 


THE  temptations  which  Satan  used  with 
Christ  in  the  wilderness  were  these 
three  :  Want,  Ambition,  and  Presumption. 
These  include  many  of  his  present  forms  of 
assailing  men. 


188  BROADCAST. 

THERE  is  wonderful  power  in  death, 
upon  survivors,  to  subdue  animosities, 
to  make  men  gentle  toward  each  other,  to 
correct  their  errors,  to  moderate  their  pas- 
sions, to  qualify  their  judgments,  to  bring  in 
thoughts  and  feelings  of  a  refining  power. 
So  by  the  Gospel  every  curse  is  used  for 
good. 


A  SOUL  pressing  onward  and  upward  to 
heaven  through  darkness  and  storms, 
amidst  temptations,  with  growing  faith  and 
zeal,  must  be  an  exceedingly  interesting  ob- 
ject to  those  who    are  now    within  the  veil. 


"  T    HAVE  seen  all  that  Laban  doeth  unto 
X   thee."     So  that  we  never  need  fear,  if 
our  cause  is  just.     We  may  suffer  temporary 
hardship,  but  the  end  will  be  peace. 


BROADCAST.  189 

YOU  confidently  expect  to  be  converted 
and  saved.  How  in  heaven  will  you 
probably  wish  that  you  had  acted,  and  when 
have  begun  to  obey  the  Gospel,  and  how 
will  you  wish  that  you  had  felt  toward  the 
Church  of  Christ  and  its  ordinances,  and  on 
what  principles  had  used  your  property,  and 
what  end  in  life  will  it  seem  that  you  should 
have  had  constantly  in   view  ? 


SOME  of  the  ways  in  which  transgressors, 
when  detected,  try  to  escape,  are,  by 
Flight,  Force,  Bribery,  Appeal  to  Compas- 
sion, Suicide.  None  of  these  will  avail  sin- 
ners at  the  last.     "  And  they  cannot  escape." 


SUPPOSE  that  you  could  overhear  Christ 
praying  for   you  in  the  next   room. 


190  BROADCAST. 

HOW  shall  we  feel  and  act  in  heaven, 
meeting  angels  at  every  turn,  and 
great  and  good  men  ?  and  having  the  Saviour 
look  in  upon  us,  and  the  cloud,  as  it  were, 
descending  and  resting  at  the  door  of  our 
mansion  ?      O  to  live  so  here,  by  faith  ! 


^ rr\0  whom  shall  we  go?"  said  one,  in 
J.  reference  to  leaving  Christ.  The 
misery  of  apostates.  To  whom  can  they  go? 
Follow  them,  trace  their  dreadful,  devious 
ways  in  search  of  peace  and  happiness,  which 
they  have  forever  left  behind  them. 


A  FRIEND  had  it  for  one  of  his  rules, 
as  helping  his  devotion,  to  pause  in 
what  he  was  doing  and  offer  ejaculatory  prayer, 
whenever  he  heard  the  clock  strike. 


BROADCAST.  191 

GRIEF  on  the  part  of  "  the  Holy  Spirit 
of  God,"  rather  than  anger,  at  the 
sins  of  those  who  by  him  are  "  sealed  to  the 
day  of  redemption,"  is  in  beautiful  accordance 
with  all  the  representations  which  are  made 
of  him,  from  that  similitude  of  him,  "as  a 
dove,"  to  that  closing  word  of  his  in  one  of 
the  last  verses  of  the  Bible,   "  Come." 


IT  is  kindly  said,  that  while  we  are  kept 
waiting  for  God,  we  should  hope  ;  and 
while  we  are  hoping,  it  is  our  duty  also  to 
wait.  "It  is  good  for  a  man  that  he  both 
hope,  and  quietly  wait,  for  the  salvation  of 
God." 


WOULD  any  of  us  suffer  ourselves,  hke 
Daniel,  to  be  cast  into  a  den  of  lions 
rather  than  be  prevented  from  praying? 


192  BROADCAST. 

FROM  this  window  in  the  country  I  see 
at  least  a  thousand  pines,  firs,  spruces, 
larches,  standing  close  together.  They  were 
there  last  year,  and  the  year  preceding,  and 
have  been  there  for  twenty  years  or  more. 
Each  is  undistinguished  from  the  rest,  but 
stands  there  quietly  and  patiently.  Are  we 
willing,  if  so  it  pleases  God,  to  be,  not  "  one 
of  a  thousand,"  but  one  in  a  thousand,  satis- 
fied to  be  anything  or  anywhere,  as  it  shall 
please  God? 

"  My  soul,  be  humble  in  thy  low  estate, 
Nor  seek  nor  wish  to  be  esteemed  or  great ; 
To  take  th'  impressions  of  a  will  divine, 
Be  this  tiiy  glory,  and  these  riches  thine." 


WE  must  not  write  bitter  things  against 
ourselves,  nor  forebode,  nor  be  expect- 
ing evil,  but  the  contrary,  —  "  knowing  that 
ye  are  thereunto  called,  that  ye  should  inherit 
a  blessing." 


BROADCAST.  198 

EVEN  the  Lord  Jesus  himself,  almighty 
and  omniscient,  would  not  "  tempt  Prov- 
idence "  by  exposing  himself  needlessly  to 
danger  ;  but  he  practised  caution,  and  was 
prudent.  '^  After  these  things  Jesus  walked 
in  Galilee,  for  he  would  not  walk  in  Jewry, 
because  the  Jews  sought  to  kill  him.'* 


BLESSED  are  the  dead,  for  this,  as  much 
as  for  anything  that  can  be  said  of 
them,  — "  For  he  that  is  dead  is  freed  from 
sin."  O  word  of  bliss  to  one  who  here  chiefly 
sought  the  spiritual  interests  of  a  departed 
child  or  friend  :  — "  They  are  without  fault 
before  the  throne  of  God." 


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EAD   the  excuses   of  those  who  made 
Israel  to  sin. 


194 


BROADCAST. 


AFTER  being  loved  as  you  are  here  by 
some,  with  all  the  strength  and  sweet- 
ness of  human  affection,  you  are  going  to  be 
loved  by  One  who  is  almighty  and  every 
way  as  infinite  in  his  love  as  in  his  power. 
We  do  not  yet  know  what  it  is  to  be  loved 
by  God,  and  by  the  Saviour,  and  by  the 
Blessed  Spirit,  and  by  the  Three  together. 


THE  wisdom  of  not  answering  our  prayers 
at  once.  It  puts  us  upon  self-examina- 
tion, repentance,  the  use  of  means,  makes  us 
wait,  and  it  teaches  patience,  and  has  a  good 
effect  on  our  consciences. 


PAUL  gloried  in  his   "  infirmities,"   more 
than  in   his   "  revelations,"  —  to  honor 
Christ. 


BROADCAST.  195 

CHRIST  is  the  only  one  whom  the  grave 
has  yielded  to  die  no  more.  "  The 
first-begotten  of  the  dead."  As  such  he  must 
be  the  object  of  infinite  interest  with  souls, 
who  see  in  him  both  the  proof  of  their  resur- 
rection and  likeness  of  their  future  bodies. 


ADVICE  to  young  converts :  —  Guard 
against  despondency  at  the  loss  of  first 
religious  impressions.  They  are  not  Christ. 
He  is  your  righteousness,  in  joy  as  weU  as 
in  sorrow,  in  hope  as  well  as  in  fear. 


UNLESS  we  have  kind  feelings  toward 
those  whom  we  are  obliged  to  oppose, 
our  opposition  will  hurt  ourselves,  and  perhaps 
more  than  it  hurts  them. 


196  BROADCAST. 

*^  TF  there  had  been  a  law  given  which  could 
X  have  given  life,  then  righteousness  would 
have  been  by  the  law."  This  means,  "  It  is 
utterly  impossible  for  you  to  be  saved  by  your 
goodness.  In  the  superstructure  of  a  house, 
glass,  paints,  lime-work,  and  soft  wood  are 
indispensable ;  but  they  cannot  make  a  good 
foundation.  Our  goodness  is  indispensable ; 
but  Jesus  Christ  is  the  only  foundation. 


WHAT  is  your  expectation  ;  what  are 
you  hving  for  ;  what  is  the  present 
great  aim  and  end  with  you  ;  what  would 
make  you  most  happy  ?  Ascertain  this,  and 
examine  it  prayerfully.  "And  now.  Lord, 
what  wait  I  for?" 


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O   we  ever  know   "  a  peace "   "  which 
passeth  all  understanding  "  ? 


BROADCAST.  197 

ONE  of  the  most  interesting  spectacles, 
perhaps,  ever  witnessed  in  heaven,  must 
have  heen  the  first  interview  there  between 
"  Saul,  who  also  is  called  Paul,"  and  Stephen. 
If  we  ever  indulge  the  thought  as  to  some  of 
the  principal  objects  of  interest  to  us  hereafter 
in  heaven,  we  may  well  place  this  among 
them,  —  to  behold  these  two  men  together. 
What  shall  we  lose,  if  we  lose  heaven,  full 
as  it  is  of  such  wonders  of  love  and  joy ! 


ONE  of  the  chief  characteristics  of  Paul 
is  his  urbanity.  His  address,  in  most 
of  his  Epistles,  in  his  most  common  manner 
of  speaking  to  his  Christian  friends,  may  al- 
most be  likened  to  the  manner  of  a  well-bred 
man  toward  a  lady.  This  is  the  more  re- 
markable, considering  the  imperfect  character 
and  behavior  of  many  to  whom  he  wrote. 
But  this  mode  of  address  makes  his  Epistles 
suitable  for  all  times.      See  2  Cor.  vii. 


198  BROADCAST, 

IF  but  a  little  of  God  be  so  distasteful  to  a 
sinner,  how  will  it  be  when  he  knows 
him  more  ?  If  the  duties  of  religion  here 
repel  him,  the  eternal  employments  of  heaven 
will  be  his  sorest  affliction.  There  is  "no 
heaven  in  the  imi verse  to  a  sinner.  "  There 
is  no  peace,  saith  my  God,  to  the  wicked." 


NO  prophet  ever  preached  such  terrible 
things  as  Christ,  nor  in  such  terms. 
But  love  to  man  blends  so  with  the  Saviour's 
words,  that  they  do  not  shock  the  mind. 
Learn,  that  with  love  to  men  they  will  allow 
you  to  say  anything  to  them. 


SHALL  death  be  to  each  of  us  "  the  last 
enemy"?      If   not,   we   shall    never  see 
"  the  last "  of  our  enemies. 


BROADCAST.  199 

HE  who  would  feel  his  heart  melt  within 
him  at  the  infinite  kindness  of  God, 
let  him  ponder  those  words  in  which  God  tells 
Israel,  "  When  thou  art  in  tribulation,  and  all 
these  things  are  come  upon  thee,  then  the 
Lord  thy  God  will  not  forsake  thee,"  &c. 
We  should  declare  it  unsafe  and  injudicious 
to  tell  one  whom  we  are  threatening,  that, 
when  he  has  sinned  and  is  in  trouble,  we  will 
certainly  be  kind  to  him.  "  Who  is  a  God 
like  unto  thee,  that  pardoneth  iniquity,  and 
passeth  by  the  transgression  of  the  remnant 
of  his  heritage  ?  " 


THERE  is  a  moral  incapacity,  and  in 
effect  it  is  equal  to  natural  deficiency. 
It  is  criminal,  for  this  incapacity  relates  only 
to  spiritual  things ;  in  everything  else  men 
are  not  deficient  in  their  apprehensions.  But 
for  the  time  it  is  equal  to  natural  defects. 
"  Bring  forth  the  bhnd  that  have  eyes,  and 
the  deaf  that  have  ears." 


200  BROADCAST. 

THESE  exhibitions  of  the  "  Industry  of 
all  Nations "  may  remind  us  of  that 
word  concerning  heaven :  ''  And  they  shall 
bring  the  glory  and  honor  of  the  nations  into 
it."  If  here  a  knowledge  of  foreign  parts  en- 
larges our  ideas,  —  recollecting  old  Homer's 
eulogium  of  his  hero  as  one  who  had  "  seen 
many  men  and  knew  their  mind," — the  end- 
less types  of  character  and  the  boundless  vari- 
ety of  personal  quahties  and  accomphshments 
in  heaven,  its  natural  scenery  surpassing  all 
the  distinctive  ieatures  of  every  grand  and 
beautiful  region  here,  will  be  to  the  inhab- 
itants of  this  world  in  heaven  a  transcendent 
means  of  enjoyment  and  progress. 


FEW  things  give  greater  peace,  than  to 
recollect  how  in  times  of  great  sorrow 
and  trial  we  were  patient,  prayerful,  loving, 
and  faithful.  God  was  a  witness  to  it. 
"  Thou  hast  known  my   soul   in   adversities." 


BROADCAST.  201 

A  WRITTEN  revelation  is  an  incompar- 
able blessing.  Is  not  the  cry  of  sub- 
jects everywhere  for  a  constitution,  some- 
thing written,  not  the  will  of  a  sovereign, 
nor  prescription,  but  the  rights  and  duties 
of  sovereign  and  subject  in  black  and  white? 
The  Bible  is  to  us  like  a  written  constitu- 
tion ;  we  can  take  it  home,  we  can  consult 
it  when  we  please,  quote  from  it,  appeal  to 
it.  God  graciously  binds  himself  by  it.  Of 
all  the  modem  heresies,  none  is  more  con- 
trary to  human  experience  than  the  rejec- 
tion of  a  written  Word,  and  the  proposed 
substitution  of  human  conscience  and  the 
moral  sentiments  as  our  guide.  We  hear 
and  read  many  things  designed  to  ridicule 
the  idea  of  "a  revelation  from  heaven  shut 
up  between  the  covers  of  a  book."  Blessed 
be  God  that  his  will  and  oui*  duty  may  be 
thus  conveniently  possessed. 


202  BROADCAST. 

«  TT  7H0M  I  shall  see  for  myself,  and  not 
¥  ▼  another,"  said  Job  of  his  Redeemer. 
I  am  to  see  Christ.  No  one  will  interpose 
between  us,  in  any  way,  or  for  any  purpose. 
It  will  be  personal  intercourse  with  Him  who 
has  searched  me  and  known  me.  What  influ- 
ence shall  this  expectation  now  exert? 


«QHARPNESS"    may   sometimes    be  for 
\J  "  edification,"  2  Cor.  xiii.     It  should  be 
employed,   if   at    all,    for    that    purpose,    and 
never  for  "  destruction." 


A  MOST  excellent  Christian  lady,  to 
whom  it  was  an  effort  to  lead  in 
prayer,  once  said,  "  It  always  puts  strength 
in  me  when  I  hear  any  one  dechne  to 
pray." 


BROADCAST.  203 

IF  we  shall  have  rapturous  love  to  our  Re- 
deemer in  heaven,  is  there  none  in  this 
world  ?  There  surely  is,  for  Christ  is  now 
all  which  he  will  be  in  heaven,  and  Christians 
have  the  same  spiritual  affections  which  they 
will  then  possess.  We  little  know  what  is 
passing  in  the  heart  of  that  Christian  friend 
who  sits  at  our  side  in  the  house  of  God. 
If  the  history  of  each  secret  place  of  prayer 
could  be  divulged,  we  should  think  some- 
times that  heaven  is  not  "  the  land  which  is 
very  far  off." 


^^  X  X  THEN  Jesus  therefore  perceived  that 
T  ▼  they  would  come  by  force  and 
make  him  a  king,  he  departed  again  into  a 
mountain,  himself  alone."  His  probable  re- 
flections there  at  the  contrast  of  his  own 
kingdom  with  that  poor  principality  to  which 
he  might  have  been  appointed.  Thus  when  the 
world  sohcits  us,  let  us  as  Christians  remem- 
ber how  much  better  a  possession  we  have 
than  the  world  can  give  or  take  away. 


204  BROADCAST. 

"  \  ND  the  manna  ceased  on  the  morrow 
-ZjL  after  they  had  eaten  of  the  old  com 
of  the  land."  Departed  Christian  friends 
have  ceased  to  need  the  ordinances  which 
sustained  and  cheered  them  here.  At  once 
and  forever  the  productions  of  the  heavenly 
Canaan   became  theirs. 


A  GERMAN    princess,    Maria    Dorothea, 
(let   her  name    live    with  her  saying,) 
took   leave   of  a   Christian   missionary 
with   these   words :    "  Chris- 
tians never  part  for 
the  last  time. 
Adieu." 


Index. 


Aaron  and  Moses  of  one  family, 

93 
"  Abide  in  me,"  168. 
Ability,  on  preaching  it,  127. 
Abram  and  the  king  of  Sodom, 

86. 
"  Accepted  in  the  beloved,"  17. 
Admonish,  who  may?  149. 
Adversary,  on  having  one,  105. 
Advice  to  a  king,  82. 

"       to  young  converts,  195. 
"Afraid  of  God,"  28. 
"  A  God  to  thee,"  99. 
Agreement  of  sects,  147. 
Alliances  with  the  bad,  32. 
All  things  made  for  Christ,  128. 
Always  do  right,  62. 
Ambition  to  be  thought  good, 

164. 
"And  the  prisoners  heard  them," 

60. 
"  An  excellent  Christian,"  120. 
Angels  anticipate  us,  96. 
"      not  effeminate,  69. 
"       worshipping  Christ,  183. 
Apostates,  their  misery,  90. 
Appearances  of  Christ  in  the 

Old  Testament,  117. 
"Appearing  "  for  us,  177. 
Arab  race,  146. 

Ark,  a  strange  protection,  130. 
Ascension  of  Christ,  180. 
Ashtaroth,  or  the  favored  sin, 

100. 


"  Asleep  on  a  pillow,"  135. 
Assurance  as  evidence,  32. 
Atonement  for  present  sins,  132. 
Atonement  proceeding,  88. 
Aurora  of  1859,  44. 

Bashfulness  a  snare,  38. 
"  Beauty  and  Bands,"  102. 
Begin  early  to  fear  God,  98. 
Begin  with  love,  31. 
Behemoth  an  emblem,  89. 
Believing  and  speaking,  77. 
Belshazzar  not  bid  to  repent,  129. 
Belshazzar's  sins,  124. 
Bible  an  anchorage,  14. 

"     and  visions,  201. 

"     is  catholic.  111. 

"     fearless  of  cavil,  22. 
Billingsgate  and  Gehenna,  45. 
Boaz  a  picture  of  happiness,  131. 
Bright  light  in  the  clouds,  92. 

Calmness  in  divine  justice,  63. 
Canaan,  selection  of,  146. 
"  Chariots  of  iron,"  100. 
Cheerfulness  after  repentance, 

122. 
Christ  a  judge  of  character,  94. 

"      and  strangers,  136. 

"      an  example  of  prudence, 
193. 

"      before  Pilate,  180. 

"      faithful  to  his  trust,  103. 

"     in  common  things,  135. 


206 


INDEX. 


Christ  in  danger  of  a  crown,  202. 

"      in  the  nouse,  61. 

"     in  the  ship,  59. 

"     in  the  stead  of  Adam,  128. 

"     more  severe  than  proph- 
ets, 198. 

"     praying  for  vou,  189. 

"     Redeemer  of  the  Church, 
30. 

"     the  first-fruits,  195. 
Christ's  blood  has  a  cry,  74. 

'*        social  pleasures,  143. 
Christians  and  heathens  com- 
pared, 79. 
Church  quarrels,  18. 
Clinging  to  Christ,  75. 
Coincidences,  145. 
Comforter,  the  world  has  none, 

111. 
Comoensations,  176. 
Confidence  in  prayer,  106. 
Conquering  by  faith,  134. 
Conversion  oi  ecclesiastics,  154. 
Conversion,  its  effect  on  others, 

13. 
Copy  striking  passages,  171. 
Cornelius's  and  Peter's  visions, 

88. 
Count  the  cost,  108. 
Country,  our,  its  dependence, 

110. 
Covenant  with  ministers,  115. 
Covetous,  not  recovered,  109, 
Covetousness,  what  is  it?  112. 
Credulity  of  unbelief,  177. 
Criticisms  returning  upon  us, 

174. 
Caring  evils,  168. 

Dagon  set  up  again,  153. 
Daniel's  advice  to  a  king,  82. 
Daniel's  discretion.  87. 
David  inquires  in  lamine,  39. 
David's  parentage,  72. 
David's  psalms  after  his  fall,  46. 
Day  of  judgment,  comfort  from, 

39. 
Dead,  freed  from  sin,  193. 
Declining  to  pray,  202. 
Deity  of  Christ,  a  corner-stone, 

81. 


Deity  of  Christ,  a  solvent  for 

doubts,  40. 
Despondency,  cure  for,  27, 139. 
Disposition, "^how  formed,  178. 
Dreams  will  be  surpassed,  149. 

Earth  viewed  from  other  worlds, 
89. 

Ecclesiastes,  156. 

Education  of  conscience,  65. 

Election,  179. 

Elijah  declines  his  translation, 
27. 

Elisha  and  Hazael,  19. 

End  of  a  trial,  150. 

Ephraim  Syrus,  71. 

Established  with  grace,  162. 

Every  one  shall  pray,  87. 

"  Every  knee  shall  bow,"  173. 

Everything  changed  at  conver- 
sion, 137. 

Escapes,  145. 

Excuses  of  tempters,  193. 

Faith  in  a  translator,  144. 
Fallen  angels  first  mentioned, 

135. 
Father  of  Redemption,  61. 
Fearing  God,  28. 
Fear  in  religion,  78. 
Fear  of  death,  174. 
"  Few,"  a  word  of  honor,  24. 
Field  of  grain,  an  emblem,  144. 
Fir-trees  for  thorns,  177. 
First  duty  in  affliction,  51. 
First-fruits  of  his  creatures,  97 
Foiling  the  tempter,  168. 
Food  and  raiment,  138. 
Forbearance,  51. 
Foreboding  evil,  192. 
Forgetfulness  of  benefits,  85. 
Free  agents  governed,  33. 
Fruit  of  suffering,  48. 
Future  company  of  the  good, 

190. 
Future  happiness  unmixedj  7. 
Future  punishment,  apologizing 

for,  29. 

Gentleness  makes  great,  161. 
Glorified  friends,  87. 


INDEX. 


207 


God,  a  preacher's  chief  end,  16. 

"    a  Eock,  101. 

"    appeals  for  judgment,  119. 

*'    ag  final  Judge,  163. 

"    beforehand  with  us,  181. 

"    considers  wickedness,  112. 

"    does  not  need  us,  17. 

"    fails  to  win  some,  175. 

"    fills  vacated  hearts,  140. 

"    in  wicked  hands,  147. 

"    is  light,  91. 

"    jealous  for  his  people,  164. 

"    misses  our  gifts,  102. 

"    our  example,  84. 

"    our  standard,  126. 

"    pardons  for  his  own  sake, 
21. 

"    past  finding  out,  96. 

"    sees  others  harm  us,  188. 

"    seeks  to  be  loved,  186. 

"    upholds  parents,  178. 

"    your  rereward,  8. 
God's  earnest  promises,  76. 

"     particular  knowledge,  76. 

"     silence  painful,  42. 

"     sinning  people  defended, 
13. 
Godliness  requires  effort,  35. 
God-man,  40. 
Going  from  Christ,  40. 
Good  influence  of  deaths,  188. 
Good  kingdom,  148. 
Good  men  all  sinners,  94. 
Grandeur  of  Christ's  coming,  43. 
Graves  an  emblem,  24. 
Growing  Christians,  77 
Guileless,  124. 

Haman  and  the  horse,  92. 
Hapless  people,  186. 
Have  you  a  heaven?  198. 
Have  you  a  last  enemy?  198. 
Having  a  heart  for  anything,  34. 
Hard  cases,  89. 
Hazael,  19. 
Heaven  better  unseen  here,  10. 

"       illustrated,  10. 

"       walled,  158. 

"      heirs  of,  the  best  heirs, 
153. 
"  He  hath  borne  our  griefs,"  95. 


"  He  will  be  our  guide,"  203. 
High-Priest's  inquiries,  127. 
Hinderances  to  conversion,  104. 
Holy  Spirit,  his  grief,  191. 
"        "    in  baptism,  120. 
"        "   judged  by  his  fruits, 

167. 
»       »   made  the  Bible,  106, 

158. 
"        "    selects  ministers,  103. 
'*        "    sins  against,  heinous, 
82. 
Holy  Spirit's  foresight  of  our 
wants,  97. 
"        "  future     influen- 

ces, 109. 
Home  influence  on  prodigals,  49. 
Hopeless  deaths,  125. 

"       mourners,  121. 
Hope  and  wait,  191. 
House  in  ruins,  142. 
Human  nature  joined  with  De- 
ity, 25. 
Human  race  and  angels,  sinning, 
107. 

Identification  with  Christ,  128. 

"  I  have  prayed  for  thee,"  15. 

Imitation  of  good  men,  96. 

Importuning  in  prayer,  14. 

Imprecations  other  than  Da- 
vid's, 100. 

Incapacity  of  sinners,  199. 

In  Christ,  as  safe  as  he,  97. 

"  In  Christ's  stead,"  28. 

Incidental  doctrinal  proofs,  121. 

Incidental  wisdom  from  Christ, 
140. 

Incidents  make  up  life,  160. 

Infirmities  and  revelations,  194. 

Instincts,  incompetency  of,  58. 

Intolerance  a  proof  of  error,  156. 

"  I  pray  not  for  the  world,"  78. 

Iron  gates,  99. 

Irrecoverable  falls,  30. 

Israel  a  lesson  for  us,  11. 

Jealousy  for  God,  75. 
Jehoshaphat,  32. 
Jehovah's  name  made  known, 
21. 


208 


INDEX. 


Jesus  at  the  "  treasury,"  179. 

Joab'8  generalship,  116. 

Job's  •'  change,"  44. 

"  description  of  the  vile,  47. 
"  present  views  of  trials,  48. 
"     scorn.  96. 

John  mistakes  a  saint  for  an  an- 
gel, 87. 

John's  question  at  the  Supper, 
176. 

John's  quick  eye,  15. 

Jonah  fleeing  from  God,  57. 

Judas  "  knew  the  place,"  63. 
"      repenting,  67. 

Judgments  under  the  Gospel,  99. 

Key-note  of  preaching,  155. 
Kind  feelings  in  controversy,195. 

Labor  for  the  Church,  88. 
Labor  to  enter  that  rest,  66. 
Lambs  and  their  antitype,  70. 
Last  charge  on  Sinai,  111. 
Law  satisfied  with  believers,  60. 

"    sprinkled  with  blood,  89. 
Leaving  Egypt  in  vain,  138. 
Leaving  this  world  forever,  150. 
Left  to  oe  tried,  141. 
"  Let  me  see  your  tongue,"  165. 
Liberality  in  false  worship,  110. 
Life  a  failure,  64. 
Life  viewed  from  heaven,  189. 
Like  begets  like,  73. 
Limiting  Christ,  170. 
Long  suffering  and  doctrine,  85. 
Lord's  Supper  in  the  retrospect, 

159. 
Losing  a  friend,  an  excuse,  160. 
Love  and  kindness,  26. 
Loved  by  God,  194. 
"  Love  his  appearing,"  131. 
*'  Love  mercy,"  59. 
Love  the  living,  178. 
Love  to  God  commanded,  159. 
Love  to  the  chastened,  73. 
Loving  and  being  loved,  154. 
Luxurious  piety,  62. 
Make  more  of  worship,  185. 
"  Make  it  a  well,"  38. 
Maker  and  Saviour,  184. 
Manners  in  piety,  83. 


Mark  faithful  with  Peter,  113. 
Marvel  at  unbelief,  108. 
Mary's  sick  brother,  16. 
Means  regarded  in  miracles,  161. 
"  Meddling  with  God,"  23. 
Mediatorship  ended,  47. 
Meetings  in  perdition,  132. 
"  Mercy  "  to  ministers,  146. 
Ministers  as  workmen,  80. 

*'        spectators  at  last,  104. 
Miracles  wisely  withheld,  100. 
Misanthropic  Christians,  37. 
Miscellaneousness  of  Scripture, 

86. 
Moderation  encouraged,  93. 
Modesty  of  greatness,  19. 
Money  from  Paul,  182. 
Morality  in  religion,  36. 
Motherless  young  children,  156. 
Mother  of  Christ,  95. 
Muse  and  work,  81. 

Naomi's  advice,  108. 

Nations  losing  the  true  religion, 

50. 
New  Testament  prophecies,  63. 
New  Year,  161. 
Noah's  preaching  and  small  ark, 

12. 
No  final  escape,  189. 
None    disappointed    at    being 

saved,  112. 
Nothing  to  forgive,  179. 
Nothing  too  hard  for  God,  186. 

Obligation  and  ability,  127. 
Obtaining  promises,  9. 
Old  age  serene,  131. 
Old  Christians,  70,  182. 
"  Old  corn  of  the  land,"  204. 
"  Old  man,"  85. 
Old  Testament  and  the  Jew,  20. 
On  being  a  warning,  18. 
One  angel,  power  of,  161. 
One  indignity  to  Christ,  141. 
One  in  a  thousand,  192. 
Only  one  safe  love,  156. 
Opportunities  compared,  152. 
Opportunities  to  be  saved,  28. 
"  Other  foundation,"  196. 
"  Other  men  labored,"  78. 


INDEX. 


209 


Others  made  beacons,  30,  84. 
Overhearing  prayer,  96. 

Painful  answers  to  prayer,  125. 
Pardoned,  90. 
Pathos,  instance  of,  175. 
Paul,  a  humbled  Pharisee,  76. 

"     and  Stephen,  197. 

"     forsaken,"  117. 

"     not  believed,  120. 

"     on  preaching,  172. 

"     translated,  101. 
Paul's  "I  lie  not,"  26, 

"      social  nature,  117. 

"     urbanity,  197. 
Peace  and  holiness,  98. 
Peace  of  God,  196. 
Peaceful  recollections,  200. 
Penitent  thief  righteous,  148. 
People  need  leaders,  162. 
Perfection,  22,  114. 
Perfectness  recognized,  117. 
Persons  and  goods,  86. 
Peter  and  Judas  repenting,  67. 
Peter's  motion  about  Judas,  164. 
Pharaoh  gives  up  to  death,  159. 
Phenomenal  Christians,  80. 
Picture  of  the    sinner's   com- 
pany, 47. 
Pietism,  116. 

Pile-driving  in  the  mind,  114. 
Places  of  blessings,  151. 
"  Plead  my  cause,"  167. 
Pleasing  God,  25. 
Pleasure  of  God  at  goodness,  83. 
Pleasures  of  sin,  48, 185. 
Prayer  an  educator,  58. 
"      in  emergencies,  142. 
"      of  Christ  in  agony,  94. 
"      and  den  of  lions,  191. 
Praying  and  no  response,  154, 

194. 
Praying  to  the  Three  in  One, 

165. 
Preacher's  position,  183. 
"  Prepare  a  place  for  you,"  43. 
Preparing  to  meet  God,  64. 
Preserver  of  men  sinned  against. 

107. 
Private  sectarianism,  169. 
Procrastination,  157. 


Proof  of  God's  love,  71. 
Prosperity,  way  to,  107. 
Promise  to  sinners,  199. 

Quiet  usefulness,  72. 

Raptures  in  religion,  167. 
Rainy-day  sermons,  37. 
Receive  more  from  God,  68. 
Reflection  on  human  nature,  63. 
Regeneration  not  development, 

19. 
Religion  friendly  to  pleasure,  19. 
Religion  of  the  head  and  heart, 

41. 
Removal  of  good  men,  145. 
Repentance  defined,  122. 

"  needs     atonement, 

147. 
Representative  guilt,  118. 
Requital  at  being  cursed,  93. 
Resurrection  in  the  book  of  Job, 
44. 
"  of  the  body,  10. 

"  while  we  live,  42. 

Reverence  in  love,  149. 
Revisiting  scenes  of  goodness, 

152. 
Rewards  a  good  motive,  23. 
"       are  mercy,  45. 
"       must  follow  goodness, 


Sabbath  and  Sinai,  111. 
Sabbath-morning  thoughts,  59. 
Sabbaths  anticipated,  42. 

'*        at  cemeteries,  187. 

"        future  witnesses,  73. 
Sackcloth  prohibited,  155. 
Salvation  most  free,  115. 
Samson's  birth  and  life  132. 
Satan  resisted,  134. 
Satan's  reflections  on  Job.  70. 
Satisfaction  with  proofs,  166. 
Saul  and  free  agency.  67. 
Saved  from  sins  here,  143. 
Sceptical  thoughts,  32. 
Scripture  helps  m  trouble,  132, 
Secret  follower  of  Christ,  21. 
Secret  sins,  100. 
Seed  of  evil-doers,  81. 


210 


INDEX, 


Seeking  Christ  at  his  tomb,  8. 

Seeming  success,  87. 

Self-complacent  bUss,  86. 

Self-respect,  65. 

Set  apart  for  God,  122. 

"  Seven     spirits     before     the 

throne,"  153. 
Shame  removed,  83. 
Sharpness,  when  proper,  202. 
Sight  of  a  crowd,  9, 
Signal  for  prayer,  190. 
**  Sin  not  unto  death,"  72. 
Sincerity  in  praying,  171. 
Sincerity  in  God,  79. 
Singing  at  the  Supper,  116. 
Sinning  after  blessings,  50. 

"       against  warnings,  10. 
Sins  changing  to  blessing,  88. 
"  Sleep  in  Jesus,"  12. 
"  Small  ship  "  for  Christ,  64. 
Snow-flakes,  170. 
Solomon,  his  choice,  83. 

"        forgets  God,  50. 
Spiritual  ignorance,  41. 
"  Stones  of  the  place,"  113. 
Stumbling-block,  178. 
Sublime  truths  common,  84. 
Submission  to  bitter  trial,  118. 
Success  and  goodness,  7. 
Suffering  well,  15. 
Sustaining  grace  constant,  126. 

Temple  ornaments  peaceful,  175. 
Theolojgy  must  be  practical,  46. 
The  "  Three,"  119. 
Think  daily  of  Christ,  75. 
"  Thou  wilt  make  all  his  bed," 

11. 
"  Though  thou  be  little,"  68. 
Three  men  at  the  gate,  130. 
Three  forms  of  temptation^  187. 


"  Thronging  "  and  "  touching  " 

Christ,  171. 
Time  to  reprove,  181. 
Too  much  light,  184. 
Treasure  for  the  last  days,  184. 
Truthfulness,  92. 
Two  judgment  days,  166. 
Two  thirds  of  God  eclipsed,  106. 
Two  visions  of  two  men,  88. 

Unbelief  against  evidence,  163. 

"        a  heinous  sin,  49. 

"        gently  rebuked,  139. 
Unexpected  perdition,  124. 
Unsatisfied  desire,  169. 
Unseen  world  near,  113. 
Unstudied  allusions  to  Christ, 

118. 
Unthought-of  relief,  189. 

Visit,  power  of  a,  29. 

Waking  in  the  morning,  74. 
Warnings  ineflFectual,  125. 
"  Water  and  blood,"  127. 
Wearying  God  with  sins,  184. 
Weeping,  two  kinds,  67. 
Weighed  in  the  balances,  129. 
"What  wait  I  for?"  196. 
Whole  household  perishing,  130. 
"  Whom  having  not  seen,"  202. 
"  Whom  I  shall  see  for  myself," 

203. 
Why  do  you  snflFer?  89. 
"  Wise  to  do  good,"  89. 
Witnesses  of  us,  188. 
Wonders  to  be  expected,  187. 
Worldly  hunger,  169. 
Written  word  and  visions,  168. 

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